New Age
| New Age | |
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| Type | Concept / ideal |
| Field | Philosophy of religion |
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New Age is a concept or ideal used in the comparative study of religion, theology, and philosophy of religion. On Wikitheism, it is treated as part of modern, comparative, and technology-centered concepts: modern, comparative, New Age, esoteric, technological, internet-based, and experimental religious ideas.
Overview
[edit | edit source]This page is a neutral starter article. It is meant to help editors compare how different traditions understand, practice, criticize, or reinterpret the idea of New Age. The meaning of the term may vary across traditions, languages, historical periods, and schools of interpretation.
In philosophy of religion
[edit | edit source]In philosophy of religion, concepts such as New Age can be studied through questions about meaning, truth, practice, value, experience, community, and ultimate reality. Some traditions treat such concepts as doctrines, while others treat them as symbols, disciplines, ethical ideals, ritual patterns, or interpretive categories.
Associated traditions and worldviews
[edit | edit source]The following traditions and worldviews are good starting points for connecting this concept to Wikitheism articles:
- Algorithmic Spirituality
- Artificial Intelligence Theism
- Ancient Alien Theory
- Dataism
- Earthseed
- Gaianism
- Jediism
- Kopimism
- Adidam
- Aetherius Society
- Anthroposophy
- Eckankar
- Evolutionary Spirituality
- Demonolatry
- Discordianism
- LaVeyan Satanism
- Exotheology
- Gnosticism
- Hermeticism
- Heaven's Gate
- Manichaeism
- New Age spirituality
- New Religious Movements
- Raelism
- Scientology
- Spiritism
- Spiritualism
- Subud
- Terasem
- Theosophy
- UFO religion
- Unarius Academy of Science
- Nuwaubian Nation
- Unitarian Universalism
Related concepts
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- Transhumanism
- AI godhead
- Secular spirituality
- Religious satire
- Channeling
- Energy healing
- Chakra