New Age - A Guide

Using a range of different sources including oral history contributions from English people living all over Scotland, Murray Watson explores how the English merged into and contributed to Scottish society in the second half of the twentieth century.

About the author

Daren Kemp is author of The Christaquarians? A Sociology of Christians in the New Age and has published a number of academic journal articles on New Age. He co-organised a major international conference on Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies at the Open University and is book review editor for the Journal of New Age Studies.

Summary

Daren Kemp surveys the whole range of descriptions of New Age, from a wide variety of angles. New Agers themselves are consulted, as well as their critics in the Churches, the media and other interest groups including rationalists, feminists and Native American Indians.

Product details

• Authors: Daren Kemp, Murray Watson
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780748615315
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-1531-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Introduction; Introduction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works