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Article: New Spirituality, Self, and Belonging: How New Agers and Neo-Pagans Talk about Themselves.(Review)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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New Spirituality, Self, and Belonging: How New Agers and Neo-Pagans Talk about Themselves by JON P. BLOCH. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998, 136 PP., $55.00 (cloth).
This book represents an investigation into how alternative spiritualists co-ordinate conflict and dissonance between the contemporary desire for individual autonomy and the fundamental human need for a more traditional sense of shared community. Bloch's efforts have been compiled into a pithy summary of findings based on twenty-two interviews with counter-cultural spiritualists. He has sought to identify how his subjects resolve the 'symbolic strains' not only between autonomy and community but also ...