Becoming a Being of Pure Consciousness: Fasting and New Age Spirituality

Fasting is an unexplored area of New Age spirituality. Using material that is primarily ethnographic, based on long-term participant observation fieldwork in Sedona, Arizona, a small town renowned for its New Age associations, this article examines some forms of fasting that are commonly recommended...

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Main Author: Crockford, Susannah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press [2019]
In: Nova religio
Year: 2019, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 38-59
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sedona, Ariz. / Fasting / New Age / Spirituality
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B kinship and religion
B American new religious movements
B Fasting
B New Age Spirituality
B religious foodways
B Commensality
B Food
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Summary:Fasting is an unexplored area of New Age spirituality. Using material that is primarily ethnographic, based on long-term participant observation fieldwork in Sedona, Arizona, a small town renowned for its New Age associations, this article examines some forms of fasting that are commonly recommended and attempted in New Age spirituality. The ethnographic data are supplemented with material drawn from two New Age spiritual leaders who are connected to Sedona, both of whom recommend fasting. Fasting is analyzed as a form of managing and organizing interspecies relationality, following the work of Graham Harvey. The consequences are framed in terms of the effects fasting has on the social organization of relatedness, or kinship, and on accusations of being dangerous or exhibiting "cult-like" behavior.
ISSN:1541-8480
Contains:Enthalten in: Nova religio
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.1.38