The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting with a number of ways of analyzing this movement, the authors were able to develop a novel theory of social religious movements of broad applicability. Based around contradictions relating to such central anthropological concepts as communitas, egalitarianism, individualism, holism, and autonomy, it reveals the processes by which, having abandoned a mainstream lifestyle, people come to build up a counter-culture way of life. Drawing on their own work on tribal shamanistic religions, the authors are able to point out interesting similarities between the latter and the Glastonbury New Age movement. Not only that: their model allows them to explain such wide-ranging social and religious movements as the Hutterites, the Kibbutz, and Green communes. In fact, the authors argue, these movements may be regarded as variations of the Glastonbury type.
Описание: Ron Geaves demonstrates how the convergence of Guru Maharaj Ji and Glastonbury Fayre 1971 reveals an important piece in the jigsaw that forms the bricolage that came to be known as ‘New Age’, or, more neutrally, contemporary spirituality. The book charts the “discovery” of Guru Maharaj Ji in India in 1969 by a small number of British, and then, North American ‘hippies’, and how his arrival in Britain in June 1971 and his speech from the pyramid stage at the Fayre at just 13 years of age, escalated his activities to become one of the key players influencing 1970s counter-culture spirituality. Both Glastonbury and Prem Rawat (Guru Maharaj Ji’s actual given name) have gone on to re-emerge in significantly different identities to the one presented in 1971. The meeting between the two demonstrates how alternative spiritualities were being formed in the 1960s and went on to develop into the ‘New Age’ counter-culture and eventually permeated mainstream cultures in Britain and the USA.
Описание: Claiming Sacred Ground Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona Adrian J. Ivakhiv A study of people and politics at two New Age spiritual sites. In this richly textured account, Adrian Ivakhiv focuses on the activities of pilgrim-migrants to Glastonbury, England and Sedona, Arizona. He discusses their efforts to encounter and experience the spirit or energy of the land and to mark out its significance by investing it with sacred meanings. Their endeavors are presented against a broad canvas of cultural and environmental struggles associated with the incorporation of such geographically marginal places into an expanding global cultural economy. Ivakhiv sees these contested and "heterotopic" landscapes as the nexus of a complex web of interestes and longings: from millennial anxieties and nostalgic re-imaginings of history and prehistory; to real-estate power grabs; contending religious visions; and the free play of ideas from science, pseudo-science, and popular culture. Looming over all this is the nonhuman life of these landscapes, an"otherness" that alternately reveals and conceals itself behind a pagenant of beliefs, images, and place-myths. A significant contribution to scholarship on alternative spirituality, sacred space, and the politics of natural landscapes, Claiming Sacred Ground will interest scholars and students of environmental and cultural studies, and the sociology of religious movements and pilgrimage. Non-specialist readers will be stimulated by the cultural, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of extraordinary natural landscapes. Adrian Ivakhiv teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, and is President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. April 2001 384 pages, 24 b&w photos, 2 figs., 9 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, index, append. cloth 0-253-33899-9$37.40 s / ?28.50 Contents IDEPARTURES 1Power and Desire in Earth's Tangled Web 2Reimagining Earth 3Orchestrating Sacred Space IIGlastonbury 4Stage, Props, and Players of Avalon 5Many Glastonburys: Place-Myths and Contested Spaces IIISEDONA 6Red Rocks to Real Estate 7New Agers, Vortexes, and the Sacred Landscape IVARRIVALS 8Practices of Place: Nature and Heterotopia Beyond the New Age
Описание: Ron Geaves demonstrates how the convergence of Prem Rawat, formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji, and Glastonbury Fayre in 1971 was a key event in understanding the jigsaw that came to be known as ‘New Age’ spirituality. The book charts the discovery of Prem Rawat in India in 1969 by a small number of British and North American ‘hippies’, and explores how his arrival in Britain in June 1971, as well as his speech from the pyramid stage at the Fayre at just 13 years old, escalated his activities to make him one of the key influencers of 1970s counterculture spirituality.
Both Glastonbury and Prem Rawat have gone on to re-emerge in significantly different identities to the ones presented in 1971. The meeting between the two demonstrates how alternative spiritualities were being formed in the 1960s and how some strands went on to develop into the ‘New Age’ counterculture that eventually permeated mainstream cultures in Britain and the USA.
Автор: Bowers Phillipa Название: The Dark Well of Glastonbury ISBN: 0992951607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992951603 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3006.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Glastonbury Daniel T. Название: Pirate Dinosaurs in Space ISBN: 152727859X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781527278592 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2400.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:
Sit down buccaneers to hear ye a tale
Found on the ocean floor by Captain Dan Tastic
Of creatures larger than the biggest blue whale
Giant dinosaurs who lived post Triassic
If you ever look up at the night sky
If you ever notice something that seems out place
This is the story of what's passing you by
It's the Pirate Dinosaurs in Space
Автор: Robinson Название: Two Glastonbury Legends ISBN: 1107495148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107495142 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1926, this book presents a concise examination of the historic context underlying ancient traditions connecting Joseph of Arimathea and King Arthur with the Abbey of Glastonbury. Illustrative figures are included and notes are incorporated throughout.
Автор: Hubbard Robert, Glastonbury Historical Society of, The Historical Society of Glastonbury Название: Glastonbury ISBN: 1531650856 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531650858 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Porter Brian L. Название: Glastonbury ISBN: 171551484X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781715514846 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2164.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: After millionaire Malcolm Capshaw hires Joe Cutler and his team to search for a fabled artifact, they enter a maze of lies, murder and betrayal. The real purpose of their search is soon exposed, as an old London crime family displays an unusual interest in an ancient town where Christianity laid its roots in England. Aided by the enigmatic professor Lucius Doberman, Joe and his team must solve the ancient mystery that lies in the shadows of Glastonbury, or die trying.
Описание: Originally published in 1971, this study of the development of services for the homeless is based on detailed investigation of provisions in South Wales and the West Country and is a study of the lives of over 500 families who, at some stage since 1963, had lost their homes.
Описание: Contributors of Volume 2: Tossi Aaron, Arnold E. Burkart, Isabel Carley, Gerald P. Dyck, Nancy Ferguson, Jane Frazee, Ruth Pollock Hamm, Maureen Kennedy, Susan Kennedy, Marcia Lunz, Joachim Matthesius, Grace Nash, Erik Nielsen, Sue Ellen Page, Martha Pline Polon, Jacobeth Postl, Pat Riello, Konnie Saliba, Miriam Samuelson, Donald Slagel, Judith Thomas, Martha Maybury WamplerBesetzung:voice, recorder and percussion
