In this wide-ranging survey Thomas Robbins assesses the state of the art in sociological and
related work on new religious movements. Concentrating on research on movements in the …

Wandern auf dem Jakobsweg, New Age, Feng-Shui und Engelskult: Die individuelle Suche
nach Spiritualität, so zeigt Hubert Knoblauch in diesem Buch, stellt die neue Sozialform des …

Compares the research method of phenomenological psychology to other qualitative
research methods such as ethnography, participant observation, grounded theory …

The problem of how the New Age may be defined is widely acknowledged among
commentators. It is hard to delineate and does not fit easily into existing analytical …

Religion is not disappearing from the modern world: experiences of transcendence are a
universal component of human life. Human experience is a continuous flow of …

This volume addresses three major issues: What are the circumstances in which people
elect to protest; what are the forms of such action; and how do people organize to do so …

Religion in the contemporary west is undergoing rapid change. In Predicting Religion twenty
experts in the study of religion present their predictions about the future of religion in the 21st …

Abstract The New Age is often depicted as the quintessential spiritual marketplace in which
seekers freely choose from an array of religious options. Empirically it is correct to point out …

Religion, stubbornly refusing to disappear as a moving force in the conduct of human affairs,
continued to pose a seemingly intractable problem for modern social theory. As their …

Generations X and Y are plugged into the contemporary world of consumption, popular
culture, and the internet. These generations treat knowledge and belief as a more flexible …