New Age movement

FROM VOL. 25 Douglas Groothuis examines the worldview and mythology behind the creation and marketing of the Internet. (13 minutes)

FROM VOL. 85 Catherine Albanese describes the varieties of "metaphysical religion" popular in early American history and draws connections with the more recent New Age movement. (14 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Charles M. Sennott, Nicholas Orme, J. Budziszewski, Albert Borgmann, James A. Herrick, Darrell Cole, and Jackson Lears

In the late 1990s, three best-selling books outlined new “religious preferences” for many Americans: The Celestine Prophecy, Embraced by the Light, and Conversations with God. Why were they popular?