A new look at the cultic milieu

Adam Possamai, Susan Oakley

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[The church-sect-cult typology has flaws when dealing with the organisational side of New Age Spirituality. One way to face this conundrum is to shift to a paradigm within sociology which accommodates the fluidity of the New Agers, i.e. the network paradigm. However, even if this paradigm explains the New Age form of aggregation in a better fashion, I argue that the notion of cult is still valuable because it describes various cells within the network paradigm. The task of this paper is thus to combine the concepts of cults and cultic milieu with the recent network paradigm, and to offer a viable sociological tool that is applicable to contemporary late twentieth/early twenty-first century developments.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSociological Sites/sights : TASA 2000 Conference
    PublisherFlinders University
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)0725808578
    Publication statusPublished - 2000
    EventAustralian Sociological Association. Conference -
    Duration: 26 Nov 2012 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceAustralian Sociological Association. Conference
    Period26/11/12 → …

    Keywords

    • New Age spirituality
    • sects
    • sociology
    • cults
    • religion

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