Strange Rites - New Religions for a Godless World

"In Strange Rites, Tara Isabella Burton takes a tour through contemporary American religiosity. As traditional churches continue to sink into obsolescence, people are looking elsewhere for the intensity and unity that religion once provided. We're carrying on a longstanding American tradition of religious eclecticism, DIY-innovation and 'unchurched' piety (and highly effective capitalism)"--

About the author

Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the nonfiction books Strange Rites and Self-Made, and the novels Here in Avalon, The World Cannot Give, and Social Creature, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Vulture, and The Guardian. She has written on religion and secularism for National Geographic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and more, and holds a doctorate in theology from Oxford. She also co-writes the Substack newsletter “Line of Beauty” with her husband.
 

Summary

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.

Foreword

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.

Product details

• Authors: Tara Isabella Burton
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2020
• EAN: 9781541762534
• ISBN: 978-1-5417-6253-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 238 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Alternative Glaubenslehren, Sociology, Religion, allgemein, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Cults, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Freemasonry & Secret Societies, Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects