From “Comparative Mysticism” to “New Age Spirituality”
Oxford University Press eBooks December 23, 2011 Steven Sutcliffe
Abstract The “new age” has been both difficult to specify and tricky to theorize in the standard terms of the academic study of religion. This chapter begins by looking at how elements of the new age stack up with the limited model of a rationalized bureaucratic organization supplied by the “world religions” taxonomy. It further locates the new age in the discursive drift from mysticism to...