Contemporary New Age transformation in Taiwan : a sociological study of a new religious movement /
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Beginning of the journey
- A sociological approach
- Methodology
- The concept of 'New Age'
- New Age : one whole movement?
- Network or milieu?
- New Age and alternative healing
- New Age religion and the New Age movement
- New Age as 'popular religion'
- New Age as 'new spirituality movement and culture'
- A 'fluid' perspective on the New Age movement
- Conclusion
- Self-religion, reflexive modernization, and globalization
- Self-religion
- Reflexive modernization
- Emotions and embodiment in self-religion and reflexive modernization
- Globalization and 'glocalization'
- Conclusion
- The range of the New Age movement in Taiwan
- The history of religion in Taiwan
- The social and previous religious backgrounds of participants
- The characteristics of New Age spiritualities
- Conclusion
- Transformation I : self, emotions and feeling rules in New Age practices
- Bringing emotions back to 'self-religion'
- New Age practices and transformations
- Reflexivity and emotions in New Age practices
- Feeling rules in New Age practices
- Conclusion
- Transformation II : healing, self-identity and expert knowledge in New Age practices
- How do people become involved in the NAM?
- Healing and self-identity
- New Age and 'alternative' expert knowledge
- Conclusion
- Transformation III : organizations, networks and globalization in the New Age movement
- Organizations and leadership of the NAM
- Networking in a spiritual marketplace
- Globalization : parallel 'glocalization'
- Conclusion
- One journey ends, another begins
- Getting healed from the movement
- Looking to the future.