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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Tara Isabella BurtonPublish date:2020-06-16Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781541762534ISBN-10:1541762533UPC:9781541762534Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, Spirituality, Comparative ReligionSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCBF4V3MHE
A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.
About Strange Rites
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.
Inside This Book
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.
This hardcover edition examines the intersection of technology, consumer culture, and spiritual seeking in 21st century America. Burton's doctorate in theology from Oxford and experience as a religion reporter at Vox.com inform her analysis of how Americans are constructing new forms of meaning-making outside traditional religious institutions.
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781541762534ISBN-10:1541762533UPC:9781541762534Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, Spirituality, Comparative ReligionSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCBF4V3MHE
Tara Isabella Burton is a contributing editor at the American Interest, a columnist at Religion News Service, and the former staff religion reporter at Vox.com. She has written on religion and secularism for National Geographic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and more, and holds a doctorate in theology from Oxford. She is also the author of the novel Social Creature (Doubleday, 2018).
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A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age.
About Strange Rites
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.
Inside This Book
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.
This hardcover edition examines the intersection of technology, consumer culture, and spiritual seeking in 21st century America. Burton's doctorate in theology from Oxford and experience as a religion reporter at Vox.com inform her analysis of how Americans are constructing new forms of meaning-making outside traditional religious institutions.
Tara Isabella Burton is a contributing editor at the American Interest, a columnist at Religion News Service, and the former staff religion reporter at Vox.com. She has written on religion and secularism for National Geographic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and more, and holds a doctorate in theology from Oxford. She is also the author of the novel Social Creature (Doubleday, 2018).
