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“New Age” Healing in the U.S.
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This paper provides a conceptual overview of the 'New Age' phenomenon and of 'New age healing,' concepts which have gone virtually unaddressed in social science research, health-related or otherwise. First, drawing upon diverse sources, the authors attempt to define 'New age,' after which they discuss those medical, spiritual, and sociocultural developments which help account for the rise of new age healing in the U.S. Next, a comprehensive review of over a dozen schemata of healing, healers, and medical systems fails to provide a satisfactory classification of new age healing. Finally, by analyzing data derived from primary and secondary source materials on 81 healing systems or techniques identifying themselves with the new age, a typology of new age healing itself is inductively generated. Three general modes are found: mental or physical self-betterment, esoteric teachings, and contemplative practice. These types of new age healing place primary emphasis, respectively, on body, mind and soul.
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Several studies have identified within New Age groups a considerable overlap between practices described as religious and those described as health-directed, among groups whose implicit worldview is decidedly non-Christian.
“Several studies have identified within New Age groups a considerable overlap between those practices that are described as religious or as health-directed (Levin and Coreil 1986;English-Lueck 1990;McGuire 1993) among groups whose implicit worldview is decidedly non-Christian.”
From New Age Healing: Origins, Definitions, and Implications for Religion and Medicine (2022) · cites this paper as Levin and Coreil 1986
Salient New Age themes, including the interconnectedness of all living things, the existence of a life force or bioenergy, the Earth as a living organism, responsibility for actions through karma, and God or Christ Consciousness as innate or indwelling features of human life, encourage and buttress individual and collective efforts at both personal change through social transformation and social改变
“These and other salient New Age themes-the interconnectedness of all living things, the existence of a life force or bioenergy, the Earth as a living organism (i.e., the Gaia hypothesis), our responsibility for our actions (e.g., through karma), God and/or”
From New Age Healing: Origins, Definitions, and Implications for Religion and Medicine (2022) · cites this paper as Levin and Coreil 1986
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- Authors
- Levin, J. S., & Coreil, J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (US)
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1986-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 889-897
- ISSN
- 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2041949579
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 24.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Keywords
- New Age, complementary and alternative medicine, esoteric teachings, contemplative practice, spiritual healing, mind-body-soul, medical systems, healers, United States
- MeSH terms
- Complementary Therapies, Holistic Health, Humans, Religion and Medicine, United States
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