PEREGRINOS PÓS-MODERNOS: A PERMANENTE BUSCA DO SAGRADO NO UNIVERSO DA NOVA ERA

Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate the permanent process of searching for the holy through experience within New Age s context. It also tried to look for the causes of the beginning of that phenomenon in the rationalistic western society. It was tried to clarify the relationship between a highly scientific, technological and informative society and a Movement that aims to live a mystical bodily and emotionally experience outside conventional religions. It was also studied how western rationalistic thought was built, its influences in religions and in which way it was established in the world what we call post-modernism. It was possible to analyze how this Movement fits in global and pluricultural contemporaneous societies. The study showed that this is an urban peregrination Movement without a settled place keeping as the main goal the own search itself. The results indicate that this Movement has within its essence the proposal of living according to an epistemology that accepts emotions and body sensations as the necessary basis to obtain knowledge and give meaning to the world. The New Age Movement has revealed itself as a constructor of a post-modern ontology where Being is defined especially by feelings.