JASANAS Volume 1

Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies

Volume 1, 2005, ISBN 9781419603590

Editorial, M.I. Bowman and D.J. Kemp

• Wanting to Have Your New Age Cake and Eat It Too
• Michael York
• Spectral Evidence of New Age Religion: On the substance of ghosts and the use ofconcepts
• 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’sGate: 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, George Chryssides:

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

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 D.J. Kemp