New Age: Exploration of outlook-on-life frameworks from a phenomenological perspective
New Age is experienced as being a growing phenomenon. Taking the New Age movement in Sweden as its point of departure, this explorative study attempts to derive a purpose for this outlook and to then describe it from a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. In-depth interviews were applied as the da...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2003
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Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2003, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20 |
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| Summary: | New Age is experienced as being a growing phenomenon. Taking the New Age movement in Sweden as its point of departure, this explorative study attempts to derive a purpose for this outlook and to then describe it from a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. In-depth interviews were applied as the data collection method and selection centred on four men and four women professionally active within the New-Age movement. The domain was derived from three aspects with outlook-on-life conceptualization: theoretical assumptions of humans and the world, a central system of values and basic values. The results indicated that New Age is a religious outlook-on-life which is strongly imprinted with a global outlook, processes of development and the individual. It offers a 'package' or theme during an age of upheavals. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9737 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13674670210130054 |