A Community of Mystics: A New Zealand New Agers' Identity, Relationship with the Community and Connection with the Divine

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A Community of Mystics: A New Zealand New Agers' Identity, Relationship with the Community and Connection with the Divine

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The 'New Age' encompasses many spiritualities, philosophies and alternative religions, such as Spiritualism, Wicca, Paganism and Theosophy, to name a few. Its cultural and ancestral threads, prior to the emergence of the contemporary New Age Movement in the early 1970s, is acknowledged by examining some prominent groups and individuals throughout history. Many comments on the New Age Movement, in the 1970s, 80s and 90s were dismissive. Through a survey done in 2007 amongst New Agers, for this...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2008

Creator

Hampton, Linda Edith

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1825

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New Age / New Zealand New Age Movement / alternative spirituality / mysticism / community.

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