Definition
The rituals of the New Age are practices that can be done sporadically or continuously, collectively or individually, which meant primarily to self-improvement. They are marked by wide possibility of arrangements that can be formed from various elements from other existing rituals or from the redefinition of rituals that are removed from their original contexts and reworked.
Introduction
The New Age has as one of its main features the unorthodox character, due to a wide possibility of combinations in ritualistic level; this creative combination can be thought both in the elaboration of new ritual practices that combine elements that originate from various other rituals and also at the level of the agents’ practices, which can take advantage of infinite rituals.
What Magnani (1999) called “neo-esoteric circuit” opens the possibility that the same individual can practice different experiences in the New Age, and these tend to have different rituals, or rituals that already...
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Oliveira, A. (2015). New Age Rituals. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_73-1
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