This paper aims to explore how practitioners of New Age spirituality in the capital of Greece, Athens, “live” (Ammerman, 2006 McGuire, 2008) and transform their ‘vernacular religion’ ( Primiano, 1995 Bowman and Valk, 2012) through their everyday sensory engagement with the sacred and their negotiation of gender and power dynamics in the process. When it comes to southern Europe and the northern Mediterranean, in particular, Christianity appears to be losing its authority and supposed exclusiveness, while new paths of practising religiosity, such as the ones that belong to the so-called ‘New Age movement’ (Heelas, 1996 Hanegraaf, 1996), claim a solid position within the southern European religious landscape. ![]() Individuals gradually let go of the churches, and ‘believe without belonging’ (Davie, 1994). ![]() 1 Religion in the modern world is supposed to have become “deprivatized” (Casanova, 1994).
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