Why do people participage in new age movements

Question 1

Individualism

Answer 1

society has become more focused around the individual during late modernity and that people are increasingly reflecting upon the options and choices available to them. Individuals are therefore increasingly choosing their own identities.

Question 2

decline in status of science

Answer 2

the decline in status of science and its failure to provide solutions for problems such as ill-health and poverty people are feeling uncertain about how to make sense of their everyday actions and experiences. new age movements offer an alternative belief system