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CHAPTER 10: Fundamentals of the New Age
• cultural expansiono New Age
• cultural contractiono fundamentalism & evangelicalism
• Softening the Boundaries--New Spirituality and the Emerging Church
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New Age Movement since the 60s
• energy healingo chakras & crystals
• channelingo Helen Schucman – A Course In Miracles
• UFOs & otherworldly visitorso Shirley MacLaine – Out on a Limb
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Religious Roots of the New Age
• Transcendentalists
• New Thought
• Theosophistso “I AM” Movement – Guy Ballardo Arcane School – Alice Bailey
• Asian & Native American teachers
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Cultural Roots of the New Age
• quantum physics
• humanistic psychology
• parapsychology
• holistic healers
• astrologers
• ecological movement
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New Age Beliefs
• expectation of a new age
• desire to find God/Self within
• correspondence
• power of Mind
• combination
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New Age Rhetoric
• “energy”
• “healing”
• “harmony”
• “universe”
• “planet” o earth as a living being
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Types of New Age Ritual Work
1) harmony with the material worldo Reiki
2) mental journey to nonmaterial worldso New Age shamanism
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Conservative Protestantism in the 1940s
• Fundamentalistso American Council of Christian Churches
• Evangelicalso National Association of Evangelicalso Christianity Todayo Billy Graham
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Search for Conservative Identity
• premillennial dispensationalismo raptureo Left Behind series
• literal belief in the Bible
• separatist tendency
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Trends in Conservative Christianity
• regional religion
• megachurches
• dominion theology
• charismatic experience
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Conservative Evangelism
• electronic churcho Christian radio
o televangelism
o internet ministries
• Christian booksellers
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Christian Right
• Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority
• Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition
• Condemnation of secular humanism
• creationism
• countertrend: Sojourners
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Conservative Religion
• centrality of Jesus
• “born again” rhetoric
• missions & revivals
• Bible study & prayer
• Personal holiness
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New Spirituality and the Emerging Church
• Changing patterns in American religion
• Softening boundaries and moving away from poles
• Incorporating culture
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New Spirituality
• New Age dissolving into new spirituality
• “Sheilaism”
• generation of seekers
• widespread beliefso self-helpo energy o holistic healing
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Emerging Church• Evangelicals and postmodernism
o Salvation from postmodernismo Learning from postmodernismo Being both evangelical and postmodern
• Prophetic impulseo Restoring early church practiceso "Candles and incense"
• Being missional• Postevangelicalism and (liberal) politics
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Similarities of Conservative Christians & New Agers
• millennial themes
• direct experience
• personal transformation
• ongoing revelation
• language of healing
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OVERVIEW
ExpansionNew Age
new spirituality
channeling
energy & healing
self-help
ContractionFundamentalism
Evangelicalism
Christian Right
Bible & Jesus
millennial themes
•Combination and loosening boundaries•New Spirituality•Emerging Church