An Understanding of the New Age through the Lens of an Embodied Experience of the Sacred

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" An Understanding of the New Age through the Lens of an Embodied Experience of the Sacred "
Saldana-Medina, Guillermo Csordas, Thomas J.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1105072
Doc. No	:	TLpq2294069375
Main Entry	:	Csordas, Thomas J.
	:	Saldana-Medina, Guillermo
Title & Author	:	An Understanding of the New Age through the Lens of an Embodied Experience of the Sacred\ Saldana-Medina, GuillermoCsordas, Thomas J.
College	:	University of California, San Diego
Date	:	2019
student score	:	2019
Degree	:	M.F.A.
Page No	:	72
Abstract	:	The thesis titled An Understanding of the New Age Through the Lens of an Embodied Experience of the Sacred is a work of anthropological character which aims to explain how the New Age phenomenon manifests in the context of globalization. From an Anthropological stance, the New Age is a cultural phenomenon of religious connotation. It is part of a process of Globalization of Religion in the context of a Global Religious System. The New Age phenomenon is embodied throughout the deterritorialized trajectories of its spiritual foragers in a quest for an experience of the Sacred as Otherness. The consequence of these trajectories is an intertwined rhizome configured by a complex interconnection of eclectic elements gravitating around the experience of the sacred in a global society. These concepts are used to demonstrate how the New Age manifests in the embodied experience of persons in concrete local contexts, maintaining a constant dialogue with the global dimension of the New Age. Three particular cases are analyzed regarding this objective: Aztec Dancing, Neomayanism and Deoceltism, and Neoshamanism.
Subject	:	Cultural anthropology
	:	Religion