The Re-Enchantment of the West Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture,9780567084088

The Re-Enchantment of the West Volume 1 Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture

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ISBN13: 9780567084088
ISBN10: 0567084086
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-04
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury T & T Clark
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Summary

Western society and culture are often described in sociological and theological texts as increasingly secular. This work (the first of two volumes) challenges this thesis and introduces the reader to the principal theories and debates surrounding the state of religion in the West (including secularization, sacralization, Easternization and the development of New Religious Movements). Book jacket.

Author Biography

Christopher Partridge is Professor of Contemporary Religion at University College Chester, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(7)
Part I THE DISENCHANTMENT AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST
Chapter 1 THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST
8(9)
Types of Secularization
8(1)
Max Weber and the Disenchantment of the World
8(3)
What Secularization Is Not
11(2)
Rationalization and Pluralism
13(3)
Concluding Comments
16(1)
Chapter 2 UNDERSTANDING NEW RELIGIONS AND ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES
17(21)
Max Weber on Sectarianism and Charisma
17(2)
Ernst Troeltsch on Churches, Sects and Mysticism
19(3)
H. Richard Niebuhr on Sectarianism
22(1)
Bryan Wilson on Sectarianism
23(1)
Towards a Typology of the New Religious Life
24(5)
Secularization and New Age Spiritualities
29(9)
Chapter 3 THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST
38(24)
Disenchantment as the Precursor to Re-Enchantment
38(8)
Spiritual, But Not Religious: Non-Traditional Religious Vitality
46(4)
De-Exotification and Contextualization
50(7)
Concluding Comments
57(5)
Part II THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OCCULTURE
Chapter 4 OCCULTURE
62(25)
The Cultic Milieu and Mystical Religion
62(4)
Occulture
66(2)
The Occult
68(3)
The Significance of the Self
71(4)
The Priority of Experience and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion
75(2)
Romanticizing the Premodern
77(1)
Pagan Occulture
78(6)
Concluding Comments
84(3)
Chapter 5 EASTERNIZATION?
87(32)
Turning East
87(2)
East Meets West
89(3)
The Significance of the 1893 World Parliament of Religions
92(4)
A Revolution of Consciousness: The Sacralizing Significance of the 1960's
96(9)
Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions
105(1)
Easternization? Problems and Proposals
106(6)
Quasi-Religion, Instrumental Activism, and Syncretism
112(5)
Concluding Comments
117(2)
Chapter 6 POPULAR OCCULTURE: LITERATURE AND FILM
119(24)
Popular Culture as Religious Text?
120(1)
The Dilution Thesis
121(2)
The Significance of Popular Culture
123(3)
Supernatural Horror: Vampire Fiction
126(5)
Cool Occulture
131(5)
Popular Sacred Narratives
136(5)
Concluding Comments
141(2)
Chapter 7 POPULAR OCCULTURE: MUSIC
143(42)
Adorno and Popular Music
143(4)
The Occultural Significance of Popular Music
147(4)
The Easternization of Popular Music
151(5)
Festival Culture
156(10)
Psychedelic Trance Culture
166(9)
Chilling Out with Ambient and Dub
175(3)
The Sacred Art of Dub
178(5)
Concluding Comments
183(2)
CONCLUDING COMMENTS: PREDICTING RELIGION 185(4)
Notes 189(35)
Bibliography 224(23)
Discography 247(2)
Filmography 249(1)
Index 250

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