The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science

ISBN-13: 9780367884444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Beth Singler

Opis

This book is the fullest introduction to the Indigo Child concept to date. Employing both on- and offline ethnographic methods, Beth Singler objectively considers the place of the Indigo Children in debates around religious identity, self-creation, online participation, conspiracy theories, race and culture, and definitions of the New Age moveme

Spis treści

1 The Indigo Child; 2 Locating the Indigo Children; 3 The Parental Account of the Indigo Child; 4 Diagnosis and Healing; 5 An Indigo Prophecy of the New Age; 6 Reception, Transmission, and Parody; 7 The Indigo Race; 8 Conclusions

O autorze

Beth Singler is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge, where she is using digital and non-digital ethnographic methods to consider contemporary developments in Artificial Intelligence and robotics and their implications for both human identity and for the continuation of religious ideas and narratives. The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science continues her research into 21st Century New Religious Movements, and other areas on which she has been published include Jediism, Scientology, Paganism, and the Pro-Ana movement.