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The ‘New Age Movement’, common during the 1980s, refers to a collection of unconventional spiritual and therapeutic practices influenced by Buddhism, Taoism, psychology, paganism, and more. The movement encourages individual choice in spiritual beliefs and practices, emphasizing self-improvement and personal empowerment. Beliefs in natural healing, mysticism, fate, and interconnectedness are characteristic. It also challenges the notions of religious authority, instead promoting a relative, varied approach to spiritual fulfillment.
World affirming new religious movements accept the goals of mainstream society — success, wealth, status, health, happiness — and claim
World accommodating new religious movements sit between the other two types, and they are the ones students most often forget
World rejecting new religious movements are the type most people picture when they hear the word ‘cult’. Their defining feature