Strange rites : new religions for a godless world / Tara Isabella Burton.
2022
BL2525 .B884 2022
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Title
Strange rites : new religions for a godless world / Tara Isabella Burton.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
ISBN
9781541762527 trade paperback
1541762525 trade paperback
9781541762510 electronic publication
1541762525 trade paperback
9781541762510 electronic publication
Published
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group, 2022.
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
ix, 301 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
BL2525 .B884 2022
Summary
Fifty-five years have passed since the cover of Time magazine proclaimed the death of God and while participation in mainstream religion has indeed plummeted, Americans have never been more spiritually busy. While rejecting traditional worship in unprecedented numbers, today's Americans are embracing a kaleidoscopic panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures--from astrology and witchcraft to SoulCycle and the alt-right. As the Internet makes it ever-easier to find new "tribes," and consumer capitalism forever threatens to turn spirituality into a lifestyle brand, remarkably modern American religious culture is undergoing a revival comparable with the Great Awakenings of centuries past. Faith is experiencing not a decline but a Renaissance. Disillusioned with organized religion and political establishments alike, more and more Americans are seeking out spiritual paths driven by intuition, not institutions. In Strange Rites, religious scholar and commentator Tara Isabella Burton visits with the techno-utopians of Silicon Valley, Satanists and polyamorous communities, witches from Bushwick, wellness junkies and social justice activists and devotees of Jordan Peterson, proving Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it. In search of the deep and the real, they are finding meaning, purpose, ritual, and communities in ever-newer, ever-stranger ways. -- Back cover
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : notes from a so-called secular age
Who are the religiously remixed (and what is a religion, anyway)?
A (brief) history of intuitional religion in America
Today's great awakening (and why it's not like the others)
Harry Potter and the birth of remix culture
Wellness culture and the rebirth of new thought
The magic resistance
The new perfectionism : our sexual utopias
Two doctrines for a godless world
Twilight of the Chads
Conclusion : class of the Titans.
Who are the religiously remixed (and what is a religion, anyway)?
A (brief) history of intuitional religion in America
Today's great awakening (and why it's not like the others)
Harry Potter and the birth of remix culture
Wellness culture and the rebirth of new thought
The magic resistance
The new perfectionism : our sexual utopias
Two doctrines for a godless world
Twilight of the Chads
Conclusion : class of the Titans.
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BL2525 .B884 2022
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SYS513 Church and World by Biermann, Burreson, Sanchez (Spring 2026)