By Mariana Caplan
Writer and anthropologist Caplan plunges into the complicated area of latest spirituality the place she boldly faces the grave distortions and fraudulent claims to strength that characterise the religious direction in our occasions. Dozens of first-hand interviews with scholars, revered lecturers and masters, including wide study are synthesised right into a remedy of the fashionable religious scene to aid readers in heading off the pitfalls of this precarious cross.
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