Reflexive religion : the new age in Brazil and beyond /
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Brill,
2018.
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| Series: | Religion in the Americas series.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to the Spirit of the New Age in Brazil
- 1. Subtle Patterns of New Age Conversion
- 2. Problematizing the Modern Self
- 3. Post-Traditional Religiosities: Individualism and Reflexivity
- 4. Methodological Challenges: Identifying New Agers
- 5. Book Structure: Native Expressions and a General Theory of the New Age
- 2. Post-Traditional Religiosities: Reflexivity and Individualism Transforming the Religious Field
- 1. Reflexivity in Contemporary Religions: From Totalization to Privatization
- 2. Crisis of Modernity and the Rise of Post-Traditional Religiosities
- 3. Revisiting Self-Realization
- 3. Sociological Overview of the New Age
- 1. Introduction: Globalization of Reflexive Mysticism
- 2. Sociological Aspects of the New Age
- 2.1. Social Class and Distinction
- 2.2. Gender and Race
- 2.3. Generational Differences
- 3. Reflexive Xenophilia
- 4. Conclusion: The Reflexivity of Nomadic Spiritualities
- 4. Perfect Self: Neo-Enlightenment and Romanticism in New Religious Forms
- 1. Enlightenment and Romanticism: From Reason to Self-Shaping
- 2. Duality Today
- 3. Further Interconnections: Love and Power in Tension
- 5. Ethnology of the New Age in Brazil: Hybridism, Individualism and Reflexivity
- 1. Beliefs in Brazilian New Age
- 2. Genealogy of the Term
- 3. Major Theoretical Options
- 4. Ethnological Categories of the New Age
- 4.1. Hybridism
- 4.2. Individualism
- 4.3. Experimentalism
- 4.4. Reflexivity
- 5. New Age as the Popularization of an Elite Mysticism
- 6. New Age in Brazil: Religious Individualism between Spiritism and Psychological Culture
- 1. Mapping the New Age in Brazil
- 2. Mapping the New Age in the Brazilian Religious Field
- 7. Psychological Culture: Management, Therapy and Art in the New Age
- 1. Therapy, Management and Reflexivity
- 2. Conclusion: Art as Emancipatory Spirituality
- 8. New Age Christianity of Paulo Coelho
- 1. "Invisible Religion" in Rio de Janeiro
- 2. New Age Christianity of Paulo Coelho
- 3. New Age References
- 4. Christian References
- 5. New Age and Catholicism in Perspective
- 6. Cultural Meaning of Post-Traditional Christianity
- 9. New Age Spiritism: The Supernatural between "The Doctrine" and Reflexivity
- 1. Common Sources of Spiritism and New Age in Brazil
- 2. Fragmentation of Spiritism under New Age Pressures
- 3. Conclusion: The New Agerization of Brazilian Religions
- 10. Niche Globalization of a Brazilian Parascience: The Case of Projectiology/Conscientiology
- 1. Structure and Agency in Organizational Growth
- 2. Out-of-Body Experience, Parascience and Niche Globalization
- 3. Parasciences and Globalization: New Age Hybrids between Science and Religion
- 4. Secular Spirituality: Organization, Cosmology and Ethos of Projectiology
- 5. From Ipanema to China: Spaces, Channels and Barriers to Projectiology
- 6. Conclusion: National Cosmologies and Transnational Possibilities
- 11. New Age in Latin America: From Gregarious Syncretism to Reflexive Individualism
- 1. What's New in the New Age?
- 2. Reflexivity and Individualism in Post-Traditional Religiosities
- 3. New Age Studies in Latin America
- 4. Gregariousness and Individualism in Latin American New Age
- 5. New Religious Studies as Pseudo-New Age
- 6. Conclusion: New Age as Post-Traditional Spiritualities of the Self
- 12. Final Thoughts: The New Age as a Religious Pragmatic of Late Modernity
- 1. Logic of Post-Traditional Religiosities
- 2. Rise of Reflexive Religiosities
- 3. Neither Secularization nor Re-Enchantment.