why do people participate in new age movements

Question 1

individualism

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Answer 1

• society has become more focused on the individual
• people increasingly choosing their own identity

bruce argues it only applies to the MC, so it is a weak religion

Question 2

decline in status of science

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Answer 2

• decline in status of science and its failure to provide solutions to ill health, poverty etc.
• NAMs offer an alternative belief system

NAMs only used as a last resort when science has been fully exhausted