New Age Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality

   Ethnographic Approaches

   Edited by Anna Fedele, Kim Knibbe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. What strategies do...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Wicca and the Christian Heritage

   Ritual, Sex and Magic

   By Joanne Pearson

   What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and...

   Published April 29th 2007 by Routledge
3. New Religions in Global Perspective

   Religious Change in the Modern World

   By Peter Clarke

   Peter B. Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, it is the perfect introduction to NRMs such...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
4. UFO Religions

   Edited by Christopher Partridge

   The spectre of the UFO, as popularized by shows such as The X-Files, has brought an astonishing slant to the face of modern religious practice. But what motivates the fantastical and sometimes sinister beliefs of UFO worshippers? UFO Religions critically examines some of the fascinating issues...

   Published July 2nd 2003 by Routledge
5. Children of the New Age

   A History of Spiritual Practices

   By Steven Sutcliffe

   The first true social history of the phenomenon known as New Age culture, Children of the New Age presents an overview of the diverse varieties of New Age belief and practice from the 1930s to the present day. Drawing on original ethnographic research and rarely seen archival material, it calls...

   Published November 13th 2002 by Routledge
6. Shamanism

   A Reader

   Edited by Graham Harvey

   Shamanism has been practised amongst communities all over the world for millennia, and continues to survive today in both modern and ancient forms. Shamanism: A Reader unites perspectives from disciplines including anthropology, psychology, musicology, and botany to provide an unique overview of...

   Published October 2nd 2002 by Routledge
7. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

   2nd Edition

   By Frances Yates

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the...

   Published April 10th 2002 by Routledge
8. Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

   Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism

   By Jenny Blain

   This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America. The book examines the phenomenon of altered...

   Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge
9. A General Theory of Magic

   2nd Edition

   By Marcel Mauss

   Series: Routledge Classics

   First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called,...

   Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge
10. Channeling: Bib Explor

    Published February 29th 1992 by Garland Science