How long does it take to read New Age Religion and Western Culture?
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
New Age Religion and Western Culture by Wouter J. Hanegraaff takes about 10 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 38 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 580 pages, about 159,500 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the nineteenth century. . This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.
Subjects: New Age movement, Occultism, New Age, Okkultismus, Esoterisme
