TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,Tara Isabella
TI  - Strange rites: new religions for a godless world 
SN  - 9781541762534
AV  - BL624 .B878 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - PublicAffairs, Hattchette Book Group
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Non-church-affiliated people
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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: Clash of the titans
N2  - While rejecting traditional worship in unprecedented numbers, today's Americans are embracing a kaleidoscopic panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures. As consumer capitalism threatens to turn spirituality into a lifestyle brand, Burton shows that faith is experiencing not a decline but a Renaissance. More and more Americans are seeking out spiritual paths driven by intuition, not institutions. She visits techno-utopians of Silicon Valley; witches from Bushwick; wellness junkies and social justice activists, to show that Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it: finding meaning, purpose, ritual, and communities in ever-newer, ever-stranger ways. -- adapted from jacket
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