New Age in Norway - Hardcover

Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781794162 ISBN 13: 9781781794166

Publisher: Equinox Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

This volume investigates ""alternative"" spiritualities that increasingly cater for the mainstream within the secularized society of Norway, making Norwegian-based research available to international scholarship. It looks at New Age both in a restricted (sensu stricto) and a wide sense (sensu lato), focusing mainly on the period from the mid-1990s and onwards, with a particular emphasis on developments after the turn of the century. Few, if any, of the ideas and practices discussed in this book are homegrown or uniquely Norwegian, but local soil and climate still matters, as habitats for particular growths and developments. Globalizing currents are here shaped and molded by local religious history and contemporary religio-political systems, along with random incidences, such as the setting up of an angel-business by the princess Märtha Louise. The position of Lutheran Protestantism as ""national religion"" particularly impacts on the development and perception of religious competitors.

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About the Author

Ingvild SAelid Gilhus is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. Siv Ellen Kraft is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Tromso Norway. James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the the University of Tromso Norway.

Review

"This book will be of interest and use to scholars of religion, particularly those specializing in New Age or alternative religions, and also to a general readership curious about what religion is in a contemporary, secularized society." --Susannah Crockford, London School of Economics, Nova Religio

About this edition

• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1781794162
• ISBN 13: 9781781794166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Gilhus Ingvild Sælid, Kraft Siv Ellen, Lewis James R.