Introduction

Approaches to the Study of the New Age Movement

James R. Lewis

I. HISTORICAL ROOTS

New Thought and the New Age

J. Gordon Melton

Roots of the New Age

Kay Alexander

Imagining India: The Influence of Hinduism on the New Age Movement

Andrea Grace Diem

James R. Lewis

How New is the New Age?

Robert Ellwood

The Magical Staff: Quantum Healing in the New Age

Catherine L. Albanese

II. ASPECTS OF THE NEW AGE

Baby Boomers, American Character, and the New Age: A Synthesis

Susan Love Brown

Myth, Metaphor, and Manifestation: The Negotiation of Belief in a New Age Community

Stephen M. Clark

Channeling: A New Revelation?

Suzanne Riordan

Employing the New Age: Training Seminars

Glenn A. Rupert

An Update on Neopagan Witchcraft in America

Aidan A. Kelly

The Evangelical Response to the New Age

Irving Hexham

III. COMPARATIVE STUDIES

The New Age Movement and Feminist Spirituality: Overlapping Conversations at the End of the Century

Mary Farrell Bednarowski

Who Holds the Cards? Women and New Age Astrology

Shoshanah Feher

The New Age Movement and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival: Distinct Yet Parallel Phases of a Fourth Great Awakening?

Phillip C. Lucas

IV. INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS

New Age Trends in Nigeria: Ancestral and/or Alien Religion?

Rosalind I. J. Hackett

Japan's New Age and Neo-New Religions: Sociological Interpretations

Mark R. Mullins

The ``Newness'' of the New Age in South Afric and Reactions to It

Gerhardus C. Oosthuizen

Alternative Spirituality in Italy

Isotta Poggi

Contributors

Notes

References

Index