Das unsichtbare neue Zeitalter: "New Age", privatisierte Religion und kultisches Milieu

Abstract: As modernity is usually called disenchanted, new religious movements, New Age and occultism are taken to mark a u-turn in the social development of religion. They are regarded as indicators of a "postmodern" religion. It is suggested that these movements follow the pattern of the invisible religion observed by Thomas Luckmann in the 1960s. They are syncretistic and individualistic as an "esoteric culture"; their structure, the "cultic milieu", can be characterized by a low degree of institutionalization and by commercialization of a magical market. From the point of view of the consumer, the esoteric culture offers a 'holistic' understanding of reality. The attraction of esoteric culture lies in a comprehensive integration of knowledge which in its legitimate versions, in specialized institutional spheres, has become structurally invisible or 'occult' in modern societies

Objekt anzeigen

• Weitere Titel: The invesible new age: privatized religion, the cultic milieu, and new age
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie ; 41 (1989) 3 ; 504-525

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: New Age ; Religion ; Zeitalter ; Okkultismus

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 1989
• Urheber: Knoblauch, Hubert

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-40933
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.