Religion, Renewal and Choice
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- Religion, Renewal and Choice: NEW FORMS OF RELIGION
- SELF-RELIGIOUS AND THE NEW AGE
- Lyon New Age spirituality rejects the idea of obligation and obedience to external authority found in traditional religions
- Instead it emphasises the idea od life as a journey of discovery, personal development , autonomy and connecting with ones' inner self.
- RE-ENCHATMENT OF THE WORLD
- Lyon criticises secularisation theory for assurming that religion is declining and being replaced by rational, scientific worldview.
- According to Weber's prediction of increasing rationalisation and disenchatment of the world, Lyon argues that we are now in a period of re-enchantment.
- This is with the growth of unconventional beliefs, practices and spirituality.
- SELF-RELIGIOUS AND THE NEW AGE
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