Author:
Kyle, Richard G.
Imprint:Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1995.
Descriptionxii, 291 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Ch. 1. New Age Has Arrived. New Age is Hard to Define ; What is the New Age ; Who Joins the New Age -- Ch. 2. New Age and the Occult Tradition. Views of Reality ; Hellenistic Era ; Middle Ages ; Renaissance and Reformation Europe ; Early Modern World -- Ch. 3. Precursors of the New Age in America. Nineteenth-Century America ; Transcendentalism ; Spiritualism ; New Thought ; Theosophy ; Eastern Religions ; Psychology -- Ch. 4. American Society and the New Age. Religious Pluralism ; Individualism ; Occult Revival ; Counterculture ; Seventies and Eighties -- Ch. 5. Modern New Age. Formative Years (1950s and 1960s) ; New Age Takes Off (1970s and 1980s) -- Ch. 6. New Age Religious and Philosophical Assumptions. Coming of a New Age ; Transformation/Evolution ; Knowledge ; Reality ; Holism ; Occult Phenomena -- Ch. 7. Science and Education in the New Age. Fragmentation of Western Thinking ; Mechanistic Cosmos ; End of the Newtonian World ; Subjective and Holistic Science ; Deep Ecology Holistic Education -- Ch. 8. New Age Rcaches Out: Politics and Economics -- New Age Politics -- New Age Economics -- Ch. 9. New Age Turns Inward: Salvation Through Psychology. Therapeutic Society ; Definitions and Relationships ; Psychoanalysis and Behaviorism ; Humanistic Psychology ; Transpersonal Psychology ; Human Potential Movement ; Consciousness Revolution -- Ch. 10. Health and Healing in the New Age. Definitions and Relationships ; Social and Economic Factors ; Alternative Medicine in American History ; Holistic Health Takes Off ; Holistic Health Philosophy ; Holistic Health Practices -- Ch. 11. "Pop" New Age: Occult Practices. Perspectives on Occult Phenomena ; Channeling ; Crystals ; Astrology ; Other Occult Practices -- Ch. 12. Evaluating the New Age. Future of the New Age ; Religious Responses ; Positive and Negative Aspects ; Where Do We Go From Here?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
