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Reflexive Religion: The New Age in Brazil and Beyond

Anthony D'Andrea

Reflexive Religion examines the rise of alternative spiritualities of the self in contemporary Brazil. Combining late modern theory and multi-site ethnographies of the New Age, it explains how religion is being transformed under globalization, reflexivity and individualism processes.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: Nov 15th, 2018
  • Pages: 188
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.20in - 1.60in - 0.90lb
  • EAN: 9789004378193
  • Categories: PhilosophyFaithSpirituality

About the Author

D'Andrea, Anthony: - Anthony D'Andrea has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where he has been a Research Associate at the Center for Latin American Studies. He authored Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa (Routledge, 2007) and has published extensively on topics of cultural globalization, mobility and religion.

Praise for this book

"The payoff of bringing social theory to bear on the subject of the New Age is the bird's-eye view it provides of an otherwise confusing landscape."
- Kelly E. Hayes, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, Nova Religio 23:4 (2020).