Glastonbury
Albion's Sage for the New Age - John Michell, Radical Traditionalism and the Myth of Sacred England - Marleen Thaler
Marleen Thaler [+]
University of Vienna
Marleen Thaler has studied alternative religious movements and Western Esotericism at the University of Vienna, where she is currently a doctoral student.
Description
Following Adrian Ivakhiv and Marion Bowman’s approach, I describe Glastonbury as a place with many faces. Thus, I am presenting many Glastonburys along their applied belief systems. Accordingly, I divide the presentation into a traditional, an alternative, and a compounded Glastonbury. By doing so I am aiming to consider Glastonbury’s spiritual attribution from various angles. Even though I am discussing both Glastonbury’s past and contemporary status as a sacred place, I am focussing on contemporary alternative perceptions.