JASANAS Volume 5

A special issue of the Journal of ASANAS on New Age and alternative spiritualities in global contexts will be available shortly.
We are pleased to make advanced publication of selected papers:
New Age in South Korea
Hai-Ran Woo
Jew Age: Jewish Praxis in Israeli New Age Discourse
Adam Klin Oron and Marianna Ruah Midbar
Spirituality and the Spiritual in Japan: Translation and Transformation
Norichika Horie
Norwegian New Age: Alternativt Nettverk and Holistisk Forbund
Georg Rřnnevig
Global and local in studies on New Age: some remarks of a Polish scholar 
Dorota Hall
Globalization: an Important Key Factor in Contemporary Religious Change 
Liselotte Frisk
CONFERENCE REPORT
Alternative Spiritualities, the New Age and New Religious Movements in Ireland: 
Interdisciplinary conference at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 30-31 October 2009
Peter Mulholland
RESEARCH REPORTS
"Una Nueva Forma de Vida": Seeking "New Spiritualities" in Urban Mexico - A Note on Research in Progress
Andrea Maldonado
Rosaleen Norton's Contribution to the Western Esoteric Tradition
Nevill Drury
BOOK REVIEWS
Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology
Jesper Aagaard Petersen ed, reviewed by Nevill Drury
Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact
Diane G Tumminia, ed, reviewed by Salvador Jimenez Murguia

JASANAS Volume 4, 2008

Special issue guest edited by Katarzyna Leszczynska and Zbigniew Pasek
ISBN 978-0-9557007-1-2
126-page soft bound copy US$ 9.99 +p&p

Contents
Editorial 
Katarzyna Leszczynska and Zbigniew Pasek

 

Life-as Spirituality as the Third Option? A View from the Polish Perspective
Dorota Hall 
The Changing Concept Of New Age: A Case Study of Spiritual Transformation of the Slovenian President
Aleš Crnic 
The New Age Market in Graz, Austria
Franz Höllinger 
Pilgrims in the world of fate - pilgrims in the world of choice: 
Pilgrimages to Czestochowa and Santiago de Compostela and New Age spirituality

Stanislaw Burdziej
The Roman-Catholic Church and the New Age Movement in Poland: 
The Dynamics of the Challenge

Krzysztof Olechnicki 
Out of Order: Spirituality and System of Belief
Enzo Pace 
New Age, fundamentalism and moral orientations
Tadeusz Doktór
BOOK REVIEWS 
New Age in Poland: The local dimension of the global phenomenon
Dorota Hall reviewed by Katarzyna Leszczyńska and Zbigniew Pasek
New Age
Michaela Moravcíková reviewed by Dorota Hall
New Age: The Church and the Challenges of Aquarius
Krzysztof Olechnicki reviewed by Katarzyna Zielińska
New Age After All
Anna Eleonora Kubiak reviewed by Malgorzata Zawila
New Age: Philosophy, Religion and Parascience
Adam Zamojski reviewed by Katarzyna Stark
Obituary: Tadeusz Doktór, 1950-2007, with bibliography
Dorota Hall
Biographical Notes

 

JASANAS Volume 3, September 2007 - full text (815KB)

ISBN 978-0-9557007-0-5
200-page soft bound copy US$ 9.99 +p&p

Contents
Editorial 
Marion Bowman and Daren Kemp 
The Epistemological Foundations of Esoteric Thought and Practice
Julia Iwersen 
The Epistemology of Esoteric Culture: Spiritual Claim-Making within the American Neopagan Community
Marty Laubach
Towards a Sacramental Understanding of Dextromethorphan
Joseph Gelfer
Complicating Spiritual Appropriation: North American Indian Agency in Western Alternative Spiritual Practice
Christina Welch
RESEARCH REPORTS
Modern Paganism in the United Kingdom
Ieuan Jones
Spiral Bound: Spaces, Selves and Cosmologies of Contemporary Magick
William Redwood
Spiritual Direction, Life Coaching and Culture
Andii Bowsher
Satanism in the Finnish Youth Culture of the 1990s
Merja Hermonen
CONFERENCE REPORTS
“Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media”, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 18-21 May 2006
Jenny Butler
“New Spirituality in Monocultural and Pluralistic Societies”, Krakow, Poland, 9-11 June 2006
Dorota Hall
ASANAS POSITIONS
$elling Spirituality, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King
Victor Anderson
BOOK REVIEWS 
New Age and Neopagan Religions in America, Sarah M Pike
Jochen Scherer 
New Religious Movements in the 21st Century, Philip Lucas & Thomas Robbins, eds
Dominic Corrywright
The Twilight of Atheism, Alister McGrath
Mike King
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby
Mike King
Rave Culture and Religion, Graham St John, ed
Graham Harvey

 

JASANAS Volume 2, Feburary 2006 - full text (753KB)

ISBN 978-1-4196-2696-5
176-page soft bound copy US$ 15.99 +p&p

Contents
Editorial 
Marion Bowman and Daren Kemp 
New Age thinking in the light of CG Jung's theory of synchronicity 
Roderick Main 
The Marsden Imbolc festival: A case of civic paganism? 
Ieuan Jones 
Globalisation, charisma, innovation, and tradition: An exploration of the transformations in the organisational vehicles for the transmission of the teachings of Prem Rawat (Maharaji) 
Ron Geaves
Does the counter-cultural character of New Age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of New Age followers 
Franz Höllinger
RESEARCH REPORTS 
New data on who joins NRMs and why: A case study of the Order of Christ/Sophia 
James R Lewis
A psychological study of New Age practices and beliefs
Miguel Farias
Weber and the witches: Sociological theory and modern Witchcraft 
Leo Ruickbie
ASANAS POSITIONS 
Contemporary Paganism: An insider's analysis
Prudence Jones
BOOK REVIEWS 
A History of Modern Yoga
Elizabeth De Michelis (2004)
Theoretical and Empirical Investigations into New Age Spiritualities
Dominic Corrywright (2003)
The Spirituality Revolution - The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality
David Tacey (2004)
Black Heroes and the Spiritual Onyame: An insight into the cosmological worlds of peoples of African descent 
Norman Barnett (2004)
Religion Online: Finding faith on the Internet
Lorne L Dawson and Douglas E Cowan, eds (2004)

 

JASANAS Volume 1, February 2005 - full text (387KB)

ISBN 978-1-4196-0359-0
174-page soft bound copy US$ 14.99 +p&p 

Contents

Editorial
Marion Bowman and Daren Kemp

Wanting to Have Your New Age Cake and Eat It Too
Michael Yor
k

Spectral Evidence of New Age Religion: On the substance of ghosts and the use of concepts
Wouter J Hanegraaff

The Invisible Inside the Visible –  The Visible Inside the Invisible:  Theoretical and methodological aspects of research on  New Age and contemporary Esotericism Christoph Bochinger

Gurdjieff, ‘Old’ or ‘New Age’: Aristotle or Astrology?
Sophia Wellbeloved

Heaven’s Gate: End-Time Prophets in a Post-Modern Era
George D Chryssides

New Age and the Discursive Construction of Community
Olav Hammer

The Rise of Mind-Body-Spirit Publishing:  Reflecting or Creating Spiritual Trends? Elizabeth Puttick

CONFERENCE REPORT
ASANAS (Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies) Conference
:  
The Open University, Milton Keynes, England – 30 May to 1 June 2003
George Chryssides

BOOK REVIEWS

Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
Olav Hammer (2001)
reviewed by Dominic Corrywright

Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices 
Steven J Sutcliffe (2003) reviewed by Stuart Rose

Legitimating New Religions
James R Lewis (2003)
reviewed by Daren Kemp

 

Editors 

Dr Marion Bowman, Open University
Dr Daren Kemp, Kempress Ltd

International Advisory Board 

Professor Paul Heelas, University of Lancaster, England
Professor Irving Hexham, University of Calgary, Canada
Dr James R Lewis, University of Tromso, Norway
Dr Mikael Rothstein, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor Susumu Shimazono, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Professor Aldo Natale Terrin, Catholic University of Milan and University of Urbino, Italy

Peer Reviewers

Igor Bahovec, Henrik Bogdan, Teri Brewer, Tadeusz Doktor, Olav Hammer, Melissa Harrington, Graham Harvey, David Lukoff, Loella Matsunaga, Leo Ruickbie, Kocku van Stuckrad, plus members of the International Advisory Board and others who have asked to remain anonymous

Dr Sophia Wellbeloved (Lighthouse Editions Limited) was book reviews editor prior to the publication of Volume 3

ISSN (print) 1750-3191 ISSN (online) 1750-3205 
Published in London, UK by Kempress Ltd (registered no 4108081) for the Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies Association, ASANASA 
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