Prem Rawat and Counterculture

Glastonbury and New Spiritualities

Professor Ron Geaves (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-09087-3 (ISBN)

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Ron Geaves demonstrates how the convergence of Prem Rawat, formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji, and Glastonbury Fayre in 1971 was a key event in understanding the jigsaw that came to be known as ‘New Age’ spirituality. The book charts the discovery of Prem Rawat in India in 1969 by a small number of British and North American ‘hippies’, and explores how his arrival in Britain in June 1971, as well as his speech from the pyramid stage at the Fayre at just 13 years old, escalated his activities to make him one of the key influencers of 1970s counterculture spirituality.

Both Glastonbury and Prem Rawat have gone on to re-emerge in significantly different identities to the ones presented in 1971. The meeting between the two demonstrates how alternative spiritualities were being formed in the 1960s and how some strands went on to develop into the ‘New Age’ counterculture that eventually permeated mainstream cultures in Britain and the USA.

Ron Geaves is Visiting Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, UK. His recent publications include Islam and Britain (Bloomsbury, 2013), and The Study of Religion, 2nd edition(Bloomsbury, 2013).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Quotations and Spellings
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Theorizing New Age and Contemporary Spiritualities
3. Easternization: Indian Gurus and the West
4. Prem Rawat and Contextualizing Indian Religions in the West
5. Festivals And Music: Counterculture’s Religiosity?
6. The Significance of Glastonbury
7. Prem Rawat at Glastonbury: Occulture and Easternization?
8. The Aftermath of Glastonbury Fayre: Prem Rawat and Counterculture
9. Counterculture, Occulture and Easternization Revisited
10. Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-09087-5 / 1350090875
ISBN-13	978-1-350-09087-3 / 9781350090873
Zustand	Neuware