New Spirituality, Self, and Belonging: How New Agers and Neo-Pagans Talk about Themselves.(Review)

Sociology of Religion | September 22, 2001| | Copyright

New Spirituality, Self, and Belonging: How New Agers and Neo-Pagans Talk about Themselves by JON P. BLOCH. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998, 136 PP., $55.00 (cloth).

This book represents an investigation into how alternative spiritualists co-ordinate conflict and dissonance between the contemporary desire for individual autonomy and the fundamental human need for a more traditional sense of shared community. Bloch's efforts have been compiled into a pithy summary of findings based on twenty-two interviews with counter-cultural spiritualists. He has sought to identify how ...

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