During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

The shells of abalone are occasionally used in New Age smudging ceremonies to catch falling ash.

* The New Age movement commonly purports animism in the form of the existence of nature spirits.

* Lindsey Hughes, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998 ).

The Acts of the Apostles (, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn ; ), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament ; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

Astrology saw a popular revival from the nineteenth century as part of a general revival of spiritualism and later New Age philosophy, and through the influence of mass media such as newspaper horoscopes and astrology software.

To meet the Power Age, Citi Field was built in New York to favor teams built on pitching, defense, and speed.

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

New Age practices often associate each chakra with a certain colour.

Some also denounce non-Christian religions such as Islam, Wicca, Paganism, New Age groups, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other polytheistic religions.

* LeBar, James J. Cults, Sects, and the New Age, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, 1989.

Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions and the New Age Movement, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2004.

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Additionally, the majority of commercial didgeridoo recordings available are distributed by multinational recording companies and feature non-Aboriginals playing a New Age style of music with liner notes promoting the instrument's spirituality which misleads consumers about the didgeridoo's secular role in traditional Aboriginal culture.

The Taboo belief is particularly strong among many Indigenous groups in the South East of Australia, where it is forbidden and considered " cultural theft " for non-Indigenous women, and especially performers of New Age music regardless of gender, to play or even touch a didgeridoo.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

The album won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for 2007, Enya's fourth.

She does not classify her music as belonging to the New Age genre.

* Grammy Awards of 1993, Best New Age Album for Shepherd Moons

* Grammy Awards of 1997, Best New Age Album for The Memory of Trees

* Grammy Awards of 2002, Best New Age Album for A Day Without Rain

* Grammy Awards of 2007, Best New Age Album for Amarantine

According to the Order of the Nazoreans Essenes, there are seven types of modern essenes: the Nazorean Essenes of the Order of O: N: E :, the Dead Sea Scroll Essenes, the Scholar Essenes, the New Age Essenes, the Szekely Essenes, the Rastafari Essenes and the Hippy Essenes.

Theosophy is also considered a major influence on the many less institutionally organized varieties of esotericism in metaphysical milieus, " Ascended Master Activities ", and within the New Age.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

Stonehenge and other ancient sites are revered by many who practice New Age spirituality.

This group includes aboriginal Americans as well as Australian aborigines, Viking Age Norse paganism and New Age spirituality.

Paul Heelas noted the development within New Age circles of what he called " seminar spirituality ": structured offerings complementing consumer choice with spiritual options.

Toumey ( 1993 ) found that secular humanism is typically portrayed as a vast evil conspiracy, deceitful and immoral, responsible for feminism, pornography, abortion, homosexuality, and New Age spirituality.

Today, it is Tibetan Buddhism and various forms of Hinduism that show the strongest Tantric influence, as well as the international postural yoga movement and most forms of American alternative spirituality grouped under the New Age rubric.

Like Sofia, Shekinah has sometimes been personified and worshiped as a goddess of wisdom within contemporary pagan religions and New Age spirituality.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, these ideas were combined with appeals by certain modern churches and neo-pagan and New Age groups seeking to recover something of ancient spirituality that is felt to be missing from the modern world.

Following a move to New Mexico with his longtime companion John Burnside in 1970, Hay's ongoing interest in Native American spirituality led the couple to co-found the Radical Faeries.

Faerie culture is undefinable as a group ; however, it has similar characteristics to " Marxism, feminism, paganism, Native American and New Age spirituality, anarchism, the mythopoetic men's movement, radical individualism, the therapeutic culture of self-fulfillment and self-actualization, earth-based movements in support of sustainable communities, spiritual solemnity coupled with a camp sensibility, gay liberation and drag.

:( 2 ) He holds that Christians should stop " the widespread practice of contrasting the primitivism, tribalism and formalism of the Old Testament ( see also Antinomianism ) with the spirituality, universalism, and freedom of the New, to the manifest disadvantage of the former.

Authentic Jewish spirituality is in the texts, not in some fancy New Age ideas or watered-down kabbalah ".

New York Press film critic Armond White praised Gibson's work, comparing him to Dreyer, for transforming Art into spirituality.

In New Age spirituality, the third eye often symbolizes a state of enlightenment or the evocation of mental images having deeply personal spiritual or psychological significance.

* Gaia, the Earth in New Age Gaian spirituality

Anthony " Tony " de Mello ( 4 September 1931, Bombay, British India – 2 June 1987, New York City ) was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality.

Some people considered Theosophy to be grouped under the general rubric of New Age spirituality although others do not agree, since they consider the New Age as an over-simplification of several theosophical concepts and having self-centered aims.

However, although New Age spirituality is more open in its presentation, it continues to rely more or less on a syncretic and esoteric methodology in the formulation of its methods and in the transmission of its wisdom / enlightenment.

Dermine described Rydén's early works as promoting a New Age-type spirituality including millennialism and pan-Christian ecumenicism, preceded by a time in which the antichrist dominated the Church.

Though the fusion of New Age spirituality with sampled Pygmy music and soft techno was heavily criticized by music purists, the album was a multi-million selling success.

It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often associated with environmentalism and New Age spirituality.

Bodymind is a compound of body and mind, which, in the New Age disciplines of humanistic psychology and spirituality, researchers in the second half of the twentieth century had begun studying in order to move beyond the dualist conceptions of body and mind towards a unified and interrelated concept of a bodymind.