The Christaquarians

The Christaquarians

This site is a growing resource for the study of New Age Christianity, Christian New Agers - whom Daren Kemp dubbed "the Christaquarians". Major publications:

	Christians and New Age, pp453-472 in Handbook of New Age, Daren Kemp and James R Lewis (eds), Brill, 2007 - see also Table of Contents.
	New Age: A Guide - Alternative Spiritualities from Aquarian Conspiracy to Next Age, textbook on New Age aimed at undergraduates (Edinburgh University Press), 2004. Sample Chapter available online.
	The Christaquarians? A Sociology of Christians in the New Age, revised text of the PhD thesis (Kempress Ltd), 2003/2000.

The Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies Association was founded following a major international conference held from 30 May to 1 June 2003 at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England in association with the Annual Conference on Contemporary and New Age Religions. Papers from this and other conferences are available, together with the SONA discussion list, aimed at academic Scholars of New Age.

The following church reports on New Age are available here:

	The Catholic Church provisional report "Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life: A Christian reflection on the “New Age”", Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, February 2003. See also the press release of the Catholic Communications Office, 3 February 2003;
	Methodist Church's Faith and Order Committee, 1994, "The New Age Movement : Report to Conference 1994";
	The Church of England's Mission Theological Advisory Group, 1996, The Search for Faith and the witness of the church;
	The Church of Scotland's report, 1993, "Young People and the Media", which included a section on New Age;
	The Catholic Irish Theological Commission, 1994, "A New Age of the Spirit? A Catholic Response to the New Age Phenomenon".

The CANA website is the homepage of the growing British network of Christians Awakening to a New Awareness, with an open membership discussion list. CANA and other networks have come together in a series of Round Table meetings to form Meta-Net whose vision statement is "Linking networks - Christian and others - which develop and promote contemporary expressions of spirituality, and sharing in that development and promotion."

Further papers are available on this site, including:

	an MTh dissertation by Gillian Paschkes-Bell on Christian Belief and the 'New Awareness', a summary of which is also given here in a Easter retreat paper in 1999;
	New Age and Mainstream Christianity, a paper by Fr Diarmuid O'Murchu who has also published a number of books and given many workshops;
	papers by Dr Anna Kubiak who is pursuing post-doctoral research on New Age at the Warsaw Academy;
	Christianity and the New Age (1990), by Janice Dolley, founder of Christians Awakening to a New Awareness (CANA), and Lady Ursula Burton. The book was never published, but the full text is available here;
	presentations on Daren Kemp's research at a number of conferences in the UK.

If you have any comments on this site, please e-mail Daren Kemp.