W(h)ither New Age Studies?: The Uses of Ethnography in a Contested Field of Scholarship

Since the 1980s, there has existed a field of scholarly inquiry into a range of phenomena termed New Age. The relative lack of ethnographic studies in this field was identified several years ago, in response to research that focused merely on the discourses within alleged key writings. However, the...

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Main Author: Wood, Matthew 1970-2015 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Berghahn [2010]
In: Religion and society
Year: 2010, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-88
Further subjects:B Context
B Ethnography
B Spirituality
B New Age
B Epistemology
B Methodology
B the social
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