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Strange rites, new religions for a godless world, Tara Isabella Burton

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Strange rites

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Tara Isabella Burton

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)"--, Provided by publisherWhile rejecting traditional worship in unprecedented numbers, today's Americans are embracing a kaleidoscopic panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures. As consumer capitalism threatens to turn spirituality into a lifestyle brand, Burton shows that faith is experiencing not a decline but a Renaissance. More and more Americans are seeking out spiritual paths driven by intuition, not institutions. She visits techno-utopians of Silicon Valley; witches from Bushwick; wellness junkies and social justice activists, to show that Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it: finding meaning, purpose, ritual, and communities in ever-newer, ever-stranger ways. -- adapted from jacket

Introduction: Notes from a so-called secular age -- Who are the religiously remixed (and what is a religion, anyway?) -- A (brief) history of intuitional religion in America -- Today's great awakening (and why it's not like the others) -- Harry Potter and the birth of remix culture -- Wellness culture and the rebirth of new thought -- The magic resistance -- The new perfectionism: our sexual utopias -- Two doctrines for a godless world -- Twilight of the chads -- Conclusion: Clash of the titans

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