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Author Blonner, Alexa, author.

Title Reimagining God and resacralisation / Alexa Blonner
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (x, 159 pages)
Series Routledge studies in religion
Routledge studies in religion.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The changing face of religion; 2 The great emergence in outline; The great religious emergence; Neo-Christian stream; Metaphysical/New Age movement; Neo-Eastern spiritualities; New thought -- human potential, therapeutic and prosperity groups; 'Return to nature'/'creation-centred' or eco-spiritual movements; Summary; 3 Reimagining God's substance, nature and location; De-anthropomorphised deity; Reimagining God's gender; Immanence versus transcendence; 4 Reimagining material value and purpose; The new sacred
Divine partnership or co-creationDedifferentiation movements; This-worldly utopianism; Universalism; Crossing the borders -- syncretism; 5 Reimagining redemption; The turn to the individual; Prosperity orientation; Experientialism; Enlightenment and self-actualisation versus saviours; Personal gnosis and 'tinkering'; Deconstruction; Organisational deconstruction and democratisation; Doctrinal deconstruction; The new morality; Supernaturalism and magicalisation; 6 A new Sacred Canopy; The awakenings -- a second Axial Age?; Future possibilities; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book shows that widespread resacralisation has been taking place, which is producing new ways of perceiving God and the divine. The last century has seen unmistakable changes in religious practices and the concept of spirituality right across the world. There was a broad expectation for much of the twentieth century that religious worldviews would eventually succumb to the challenge of secularist materialism, but this process of secularisation has yet to occur as predicted. The book begins by contrasting theories of secularisation and resacralisation. Throughout the book, conceptual threads, or 'new religious themes', related to this resacralisation are discussed in terms of three main categories: reimagining God's nature, substance and location; reimagining human value and purpose; and reimagining modes of redemption. Finally, the book considers how these threads are moving in various different directions, and what the religious future might hold. This is a bold examination of contemporary spirituality that will appeal to academics and scholars of religious studies, new religious movements and the sociology of religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Alexa Blonner received her doctoral degree in Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2017, specialising in new religious movements. She has presented papers on the Unification Movement and Korean indigenous new religious movements at conferences as an independent scholar and has had three papers published in peer-reviewed journals to date with more in the pipeline. Other areas of interest are the philosophy of religion, sociology of religion, religious anthropology, spirituality, morals and ethics
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Subject Religion and civilization -- History -- 20th century
Spirituality -- History -- 20th century
Secularization -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Spirituality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Religion and civilization.
Secularization.
Spirituality.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019011230
ISBN 9780429624896
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9780429624452
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9780429624018
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9780429053344
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