The New Age of Glastonbury: The Construction of Religious Movements

by Ruth Prince and David Riches

Book Overview

The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad applicability. Based around contradictions relating to such central anthropological concepts as communitas, egalitarianism, individualism, holism, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571817921
• ISBN13: 9781571817921
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"