SOC 2805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: New Age, Panentheism, Pantheism
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The new age movement is a modern development which has been an attempt to synthesize and repackage all kinds of religious ideas for the western individualist consumer perspective. Keep in mind that this movement is not simply any or all religions in the category of new. Religions. those are different, and we will return to them later on. Here is a link with some further details about what the "new age movement" is: [there are some misleading or mistaken elements in the link (including a misunderstanding of the definition of panentheism, as distinct from pantheism), but it is generally helpful. ] Distinguishing hinduism from this kind of pop western altered use of hindu ideas (and those of other religions) is very important. It is misleading, confused, and unfair to take various contorted ideas about other religions as re-packaged and changed by others, and either accept or try to pass them off as the actual teachings and practices of those religions.