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This is an innovative and timely study which raises resonant questions about the impact of a hitherto minority worldview on mainstream American culture - and beyond.\" -- Steven J. Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e\"Crockford is able to convince the reader that her participant–observer strategy works. There is an intimacy to her research that, not surprisingly, provides an added interpretive dimension not typically found in the social science literature on contemporary New Age and alternative spiritual movements.\" * Nova Religio *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Everything Is Energy\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Rocks Were Screaming at Me: Agency, Nature, and Space\u003cbr\u003e 2 21st December 2012: “This Is My Story, Not Yours”\u003cbr\u003e 3 Awakened Aliens: Crafting the Self on the Spiritual Path\u003cbr\u003e 4 To Your Highest Vibration: Hierarchies of Food, Boundaries of the Self\u003cbr\u003e 5 What Is Wrong with America? Conspiracy Theories as Counter-Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: All Energy Vibrates at a Certain Frequency\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083416904023,"sku":"9780226777917","price":78.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226777917.jpg?v=1725548870"},{"product_id":"ripples-of-the-universe-spirituality-in-sedona-arizona-9780226778075","title":"Ripples of the Universe  Spirituality in Sedona","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This elegantly written report from an ethnographic field study is a rich witness to a US landscape and the spiritual seekers who developed a visceral connection to the region’s 'energies'. . . . At once strikingly empathic and analytic, Crockford employs theories from religious studies, critical theory, and political science to explain behaviors of those who have little control over corporate or governmental policies that determine their existence.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Crockford’s \u003ci\u003eRipples of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to New Age ‘spirituality’ as it is practiced ‘on the ground’ in 21st-century America. I predict the book will be widely read, especially by students of new religious movements, sociology of religion in the United States, and critical cultural studies. Engagingly written, methodologically clear, and well-illustrated, \u003ci\u003eRipples of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e will also be an ideal text for graduate seminars on these topics.\" * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable work . . . sensitive and multi-dimensional. The book illuminates how many people have given up the normal life of jobs and family to become, in effect, renunciates and even mendicants, struggling to survive in a society that grants them no recognition.\" * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRipples of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e makes a solid contribution to the study of contemporary spiritualities and is highly recommended for scholars of religion, sociology, anthropology and American culture.\" * Journal for the Academic Study of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"This thought-provoking and profound study paints a fascinating picture of spirituality in Sedona. It explores a microcosm of larger US society, replicating the same issues, conflicts, and insecurities, and making spiritually framed attempts to address them. This book is extremely valuable for scholars interested in (alternative) spirituality and religion in the contemporary US.\" * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“This emotionally sensitive, beautifully written book shows how ethnography can reshape our understanding of ourselves. Crockford describes how spirituality offers hope of new resources and a new way of life in the context of contemporary economic arrangements, and how precarious such hopes can be. She casts an original, clear light on the everyday experience of a remarkable cast of people, displaying both compassion and objectivity; this is a small masterpiece.” -- Timothy Jenkins, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e“In this lucid, engaging, and comprehensive analysis of Sedona’s metaphysical spiritualists, Crockford thoroughly unpacks the cosmology, millenarian beliefs, and cultural resonances of this key center of what used to be called ‘New Age spirituality.’ Crockford shows how Sedona’s metaphysicians rework race, class, kinship, health, neoliberal economics, and notions of purity, indigeneity, government corruption, and utopian aspiration in their efforts to create a value-driven spirituality that is as individual as it is emblematic of the ‘postsecular’ condition. A wonderful book!” -- Adrian J. Ivakhiv, University of Vermont\u003cbr\u003e“Not only is this book a deep ethnographic dive into the metaphysical\/theosophical\/new thought\/new age\/extraterrestrial spirituality and conspiracy theory milieu of Sedona, it is also an astute critical description of major thought currents in America today and their histories. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to learn more about American culture, spirituality, and even politics.” -- Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fascinating interpretation of seekers and seekership at an iconic American site for post-New Age spirituality, focusing on key themes of nature, diet, identity, conspiracy and revelation. The author combines empathetic ethnography with shrewd analysis of the erosion of the middle ground between the local and the cosmic - society, in other words - that's inadvertently fostered in pursuit of the 'spiritual path'. This is an innovative and timely study which raises resonant questions about the impact of a hitherto minority worldview on mainstream American culture - and beyond.\" -- Steven J. Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e\"Crockford is able to convince the reader that her participant–observer strategy works. 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Conspiracy Theories as Counter-Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: All Energy Vibrates at a Certain Frequency\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083417231703,"sku":"9780226778075","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226778075.jpg?v=1725548873"},{"product_id":"dark-green-religion-9780520261006","title":"Dark Green Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the evolution of 'green religions' in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. 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