The Glocal New Age




Martikainen, Tuomas

Kupiainen, Jari; Sevänen, Erkki; Stotesbury, John A.

2004

Cultural Identity in Transition: Contemporary Conditions, Practices and Politics of a Global Phenomenon

260

284

81-269-0374-0



The purpose of this article is to explore some dimensions of the global spread of New Age through a specific case, which is the localised New Age in a Finnish city, Turku. At first, I will position the New Age phenomenon on to the map of religion in late modernity and Finland as well as reflect on some of its main characteristics. After that I will discuss New Age in the religious field of Turku: what forms it takes and what local bookstores tell us about New Age. This leads us to a discussion of glocality, where I will explore how the notion helps us to understand contemporary local–global relations. My aim is to show that we can find a combination of both global and local features that can best be described as glocal.



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