The New Age in the Modern West: Counter-Culture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- Campion1
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781472522795
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book results from research in several distinct areas: the history of ideas, alternative spirituality and New Age studies, and international relations, and therefore represents the result of interdisciplinary research conducted over about twenty years. This book firstly identifies New Age thought as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age. Secondly, it relates New Age currents to the much longer tradition of Utopianism and the belief in the possibility of perfect societies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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