The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite different from the those forms of religion that are in decline, but are often defined over against them and articulated and passed on in ways quite different from those of traditional religion. In particular, it is argued that such contemporary Western spirituality is fed by a constantly replenished reservoir of ideas, practices, and methodologies, which is here termed 'occulture'. Moreover, such occultural ideas both feed into and are resourced by popular culture. Indeed, popular occulture is a key feature of the re-enchantment of the West.
Demonstrating the significance and ubiquity of these ideas, this book examines, for example, healthcare and nursing, contemporary environmentalism, psychedelia and drug use, the Internet and cyberspirituality, belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, demonology and the contemporary fascination with the figure of Satan, the heavy metal subculture, popular apocalypticism, and millennial violence.

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Partridge, Christopher H.

Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

T & T Clark International

Bloomsbury Academic

Cassell

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, New York, England, 2006

Bloomsbury UK, London, 2005

London ; New York, ©2005

Annotated edition, 2006

London, 2004-2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents 8
Acknowledgements 12
Introduction 14
Chapter 1 WELLBEING: SUBJECTIVIZATION, THE HOLISTIC MILIEU, AND HEALTHCARE 17
The Subjective Turn 19
Spirituality, Religion, and Secularization 21
The Holistic Milieu and Wellbeing Culture 26
Well Blacon 33
Nursing and the Mainstreaming of Holistic Healing 35
Nursing, Healing, and Spirituality 40
Ayurvedic Healing 43
Nursing and Spiritual Development 44
Quantum Healing 47
Concluding Comments 51
Chapter 2 ECO-ENCHANTMENT 55
Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and Ecology: Some Historical Notes 56
The Problem with Christianity 64
The Deepening of Ecology 67
Mother Earth, Goddess Gaia 74
Re-Enchanted Resistance 78
Eco-Paganism 86
Concluding Comments 93
Chapter 3 CLEANSING THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION: THE CONTEMPORARY SACRALIZATION OF PSYCHEDELICS 95
Pre-Modern and Indigenous Psychedelia 96
The Modern Spiritual Psychedelic Revolution: Phase One 98
The Modern Spiritual Psychedelic Revolution: Phase Two 107
The Modern Spiritual Psychedelic Revolution: Phase Three 117
Contemporary Psychedelic Shamanism 124
Contemporary Entheogenic Religions and Networks 133
Psychedelic Spirituality and Religious Experience 139
Concluding Comments 145
Chapter 4 CYBERSPIRITUALITY 148
Cyberspace and Cyberculture 149
Multiple Selves, Virtual Worlds, and Separate Realities 153
Cyber-Sociability 157
Cyberia and Soul Space 163
Techgnosis and Technopaganism 168
TOPY 172
Concluding Comments 174
Chapter 5 THE SACRALIZATION OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL 178
UFO Belief, Occulture, and Re-Enchantment 180
The Emergence of Contemporary Ufology 183
Ufoism as Theosophical Religion 185
Ufoism as Physicalist Religion 196
Passing Through Heaven's Gate: UFO Belief, Apocalypticism, and Violence 202
Abduction Spiritualities 207
Crop Circles 214
Concluding Comments 217
Chapter 6 DARK OCCULTURE: CONTEMPORARY WESTERN DEMONOLOGY 220
Judaeo-Christian Demonology 221
Belief in the Devil in the Contemporary Western World 229
Satanic Panic 231
Contemporary Satanism 234
Contemporary Vampire Culture 243
The Demonic as Iconic: Satanism in 1960s and 1970s Films 252
Satanism and the Heavy Metal Subculture 259
Demonizing the Extraterrestrial 268
Counselling and Myth Construction 274
Something Worth Screaming About 276
Demonizing the Extraterrestrial in Religious Discourse 276
The Reptilian Agenda 283
Concluding Comments 289
Chapter 7 THE END: ESCHATOLOGICAL RE-ENCHANTMENT 292
Apocalypticism, Millennialism, and Millenarianism 294
The Appeal of the Apocalypse 296
Millenarian Adventism, Failed Prophecy, and Semiotic Promiscuity 301
When Prophecy Fails 308
Apocalypticism and Violence 312
Popular Millenarianism 319
Millenarianism and Conspiracy Occulture 328
Concluding Comments 338
Notes 341
Bibliography 405
Index 458
A 458
B 459
C 461
D 463
E 464
F 465
G 466
H 467
I 468
J 468
K 469
L 470
M 471
N 472
O 473
P 474
Q 475
R 475
S 476
T 478
U 479
V 479
W 480
X 481
Y 481
Z 481

Challenging some assessments of religion in the West, this study argues that, although much organized religion, particularly Christianity, is in numerical decline, in actual fact we are witnessing an alternative spiritual re-enchantment of society and culture

As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. - Publisher

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