The Channeling Zone – American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Paper)
Autor Michael Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 1999
The Channeling Zone reveals that this controversial practice has deep roots in earlier forms of American spiritualism while manifesting the most current concerns and anxieties of American life at the end of the twentieth century. Basing his analysis on dozens of interviews with practicing channels and extensive participant-observation research in New Age workshops, Michael Brown takes readers into the world of those who find meaning and inspiration--and occasionally a lucrative career--in regular conversations with spectral beings. Drawing on his previous research among Amazonian Indians, he brings a historical and comparative perspective to the study of this flamboyant expression of contemporary spirituality. Neither a debunker nor an advocate, Brown weaves together the opinions and life stories of practicing channels and their clients to bring their world and its assumptions into higher relief. He describes the experiences that lead often highly educated, middle-class Americans to conclude that useful information is filtered through the spirit world. He pursues the nature of the quest--the fears, hopes, and expectations of the seekers--and finds its roots in traditional American notions of individualism and self-perfection. The Channeling Zone is a lively journey into the complex social world of the thousands of Americans who have abandoned mainstream religions in search of direct and improvisational contact with spiritual beings.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780674108837
ISBN-10: 0674108833
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674108833
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 141 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Harvard University Press