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As we approach the next millennium, the New Age is having a powerful effect on our lives: its influence can be seen in advertising, the media, music, and in the growing interest in astrology, healing crystals, human potential, and holistic medicine. Yet are we really at the dawn of a new age? And what is the significance of the New Age 'Movement' for an apparently tired and declining Christianity?In this timely and challenging study. Martin Palmer strips away the layers of misunderstanding that have accumulated around New Age ideas. Some people have demonized the New Age as a conspiracy seeking world domination. Martin Palmer contests that it is not a co-ordinated movement at all, but rather a mass of different groups of people united only by a spiritual hunger which is not being fulfilled by conventional religion. Nor is it altogether new, for it explores old and forgotten elements of Eastern and Western religious traditions. Yet he argues that the issues that New Agers are raising and grappling with may sometimes take absurd forms but have important implications which mainstream religion must take to heart.Above all, Martin Palmer provides a message of hope arising out of a clash of ideas that is full of potential for fruitful interaction. He proposes a radical vision of an emergent Christianity that has the potential to restore the sacred to our secular Western world. ISBN: 9781855382299
