Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Methodology -- A Preliminary Demarcation of the Field -- Part One: ORIENTATION: MAJOR TRENDS IN NEW AGE RELIGION -- CHAPTER ONE. Channeling -- A Brief Characteristic -- Channeling as Articulated Revelations -- Channeling Modes and Developmental Processes -- The Sources (Edgar Cayce -- Eva Pierrakos -- Jane Roberts -- A Course in Miracles -- David Spangler -- Ramala -- JZ Knight -- Sanaya Roman -- Shirley MacLaine) -- CHAPTER TWO. Healing and Personal Growth -- The Alternative Therapies -- Healing as a Religious Phenomenon -- Main Currents -- The Sources (Eva Pierrakos -- Ken Keyes -- Leonard Orr & Sondra Ray -- Shakti Gawain -- Sanaya Roman -- Henry Reed/Edgar Cayce -- Jean Houston -- Stanislav Grof -- Ken Wilber -- Michael Harner -- Roger Walsh -- Louise L. Hay -- Chris Griscom -- Shirley MacLaine -- Fritjof Capra) -- CHAPTER THREE. New Age Science -- The Quest for a Unified Worldview -- New Age Science as Naturphilosophie -- Main Orientations -- The Sources (David Bohm -- F. David Peat -- Michael Talbot -- Ilya Prigogine -- Erich Jantsch -- Rupert Sheldrake -- Fritjof Capra -- Ken Wilber -- Arthur M. Young) -- CHAPTER FOUR. Neopaganism -- The Phenomenon of Neopaganism -- Neopaganism as Magic -- Main Orientations -- The Sources (Janet & Stewart Farrar -- Vivianne Crowley -- Starhawk -- Zsuzsanna Budapest -- Marian Green -- Caitlín & John Matthews -- Murry Hope) -- CHAPTER FIVE. New Age in a Restricted and in a General Sense -- Introduction -- An Historical Sketch -- New Age sensu stricto: The Millenarian Vision -- New Age sensu lato -- The Sources (David Spangler -- George Trevelyan -- Gary Zukav -- Marilyn Ferguson -- Fritjof Capra -- Peter Russell -- Willis Harman -- Shirley MacLaine -- Matthew Fox) -- Part Two: EXPOSITION: THE VARIETIES OF NEW AGE EXPERIENCE -- CHAPTER SIX. The Nature of Reality.

1. Introduction: Attitudes to Experiential Reality -- 2. The Meanings of Holism -- 3. The Evolutionary Perspective -- 4. Some Additional Issues -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Meta-Empirical and Human Beings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Divine Beings -- 3. Intermediate Beings -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Matters of the Mind -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human Beings -- 3. The Metaphysics of Mind -- CHAPTER NINE. Death and Survival -- 1. Introduction: The Experience of Death -- 2. Other Realities -- 3. Reincarnation and Beyond -- CHAPTER TEN. Good and Evil -- 1. Introduction: The Paradox of Ethical Holism -- 2. The Structure of Cosmic Justice -- 3. The Negative -- 4. The Positive -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Visions of the Past -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beginnings -- 3. From Atlantis to the Holy Land -- 4. The Age of Pisces -- 5. Historical Religions versus Universal Spirituality -- CHAPTER TWELVE. The New Age -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Age of Aquarius -- 3. The Shift from Old to New -- 4. Epilogue: Controversies over the New Age Sensu Lato -- Part Three: INTERPRETATION: NEW AGE RELIGION AND TRADITIONAL ESOTERICISM -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Towards a Historical Perspective on New Age Religion -- 1. A Short Evaluation -- 2. Perspectives on the New Age -- 3. Desiderata for Academic Research -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. A Historical Framework -- 1. The Modern Hermeticist Revival and The Emergence of Western Esotericism -- 2. Esotericism between Renaissance and Enlightenment -- 3. A Clash of Worldviews -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Mirror of Secular Thought -- 1. Esotericism Between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment -- 2. The Impact of the Study of Religions -- 3. Evolution as Religion -- 4. The Psychologization of Esotericism -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Conclusions: The New Age Movement and the Nature of New Age Religion.

New Age as Culture Criticism-New Age as Secularized Esotericism-A Final Problem: The Demarcation in Time-Postscript -- Appendix: Primary New Age Sources (in alphabetical order) -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.