TY  - BOOK
AU  - D'Andrea,Anthony
TI  - Reflexive Religion: the New Age in Brazil and Beyond
T2  - Religion in the Americas Series
SN  - 9789004380110
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to the Spirit of the New Age in Brazil -- 2 Post- Traditional Religiosities: Reflexivity and Individualism Transforming the Religious Field -- 3 Sociological Overview of the New Age -- 4 The Perfect Self: Neo-Enlightenment and Romanticism in New Religious Forms -- 5 Ethnology of the New Age in Brazil: Hybridism, Individualism and Reflexivity -- 6 The New Age in Brazil: Religious Individualism between Spiritism and Psychological Culture -- 7 Psychological Culture: Management, Therapy and Art in the New Age -- 8 The New Age Christianity of Paulo Coelho -- 9 New Age Spiritism: The Supernatural between "The Doctrine" and Reflexivity -- 10 Niche Globalization of a Brazilian Parascience: The Case of Projectiology/ Conscientiology -- 11 New Age in Latin America: From Gregarious Syncretism to Reflexive Individualism -- 12 Final Thoughts: The New Age as a Religious Pragmatic of Late Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Reflexive Religion examines the rise of alternative spiritualities of the self in contemporary Brazil. Combining late modern theory and multi-site ethnographies of the New Age, it explains how religion is being transformed under globalization, reflexivity and individualism processes
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