New Age Movement

New Age - a term popularized in the 1980s to describe a wide-ranging set of beliefs and practices that are an outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s in the United States. Adherents of the New Age movement believe that a spiritual era is dawning in which individuals and society will be transformed. The movement encompasses a wide range of ideas, including personal spiritual growth Read More...

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Perspectives on the New Age
by James R. Lewis, J. Gordon Melton. 370 pgs.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Approaches to the Study of the New Age Movement

Part I: Historical Roots

Chapter 2: New Thought and the New Age

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Roots of the New Age

Chapter 4: Imagining India: the Influence of Hinduism on the New Age Movement

Chapter 5: How New is the New Age?

Chapter 6: The Magical Staff: Quantum Healing in the New Age

Part II: Aspects of the New Age

Chapter 7: Baby Boomers, American Character, and the New Age: a Synthesis

Chapter 8: Myth, Metaphor, and Manifestation: the Negotiation of Belief in a New Age Community

Chapter 9: Channeling: a New Revelation?

Chapter 10: Employing the New Age: Training Seminars

Chapter 11: An Update on Neopagan Witchcraft in America

Chapter 12: The Evangelical Response to the New Age

Part III: Comparative Studies

Chapter 13: The New Age Movement and Feminist Spirituality: Overlapping Conversations at the End of the Century

Chapter 14: Who Holds the Cards? Women and New Age Astrology

Conclusion

Appendix: The Percent of Respondents within Each Group (new Age and Non-New Age) Who

Chapter 15: The New Age Movement and the Pentecostal/ Charismatic Revival: Distinct Yet Parallel Phases of a Fourth Great Awakening?

Part IV: International Dimensions

Chapter 16: New Age Trends in Nigeria: Ancestral And/Or Alien Religion?

Chapter 17: Japan's New Age and Neo-New Religions: Sociological Interpretations

Chapter 18: The "Newness" of the New Age in South Africa and Reactions to It

Appendix: The New Age -- South African Version Christopher Nevill

Chapter 19: Alternative Spirituality in Italy

Contributors

Notes

References

Index
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Children of the New Age: A History of Alternative Spirituality
by Steven J. Sutcliffe. 275 pgs.

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The first true social history of the phenomenon known as New Age culture, Children of the New Age presents an overview of the diverse varieties of New Age belief and practice from the 1930s to the present day. Drawing on original ethnographic research and rarely seen archival material, it calls into question the assumption that the New Age is a discrete and unified 'movement', and reveals the unities and fractures evident in contemporary New Age practice.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Emblem

1: The Life and Times of 'New Age'

2: 'Oligarchy of Elect Souls'

3: The 'Nameless Ones'

4: 'the End is Nigh'

Part 2: Idiom

5: Heaven on Earth

6: A Group of Seekers

7: A Colony of Seekers

8: A Network of Seekers

9: The End of 'New Age'

Notes

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Newspapers

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Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations (Chap. 11 "New Age Religion")
by Linda Woodhead, Paul Fletcher, Hiroko Kawanami, David Smith. 393 pgs.

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This comprehensive guide offers an unrivalled introduction to recent work in the study of religion, from the religious traditions of Asia and the West, to new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age.With an historical introduction to each religion and detailed analysis of its place in the modern world, Religions in the Modern World is ideal for newcomers to the study of religion. It incorporates case-studies and anecdotes, text extracts, chapter menus and end-of-chapter summaries, glossaries and annotated further reading sections. Topics covered include:* religion, colonialism and postcolonialism* religious nationalism* women and religion* religion and globalization* religion and authority* the rise of new spiritualities.

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List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Traditions and Transformations

Chapter 1: Hinduism

Chapter 2: Buddhism

Chapter 3: Sikhism

Chapter 4: Chinese Religions

Chapter 5: Japanese Religions

Chapter 6: Judaism

Chapter 7: Christianity

Chapter 8: Islam

Chapter 9: Religion in Africa

Chapter 10: Native American Religions

Chapter 11: New Age Religion

Chapter 12: New Religious Movements

Part II: Themes and Trends

Chapter 13: Secularization and De-Secularization

Chapter 14: Religion and Globalization

Chapter 15: Religion and Politics

Chapter 16: Women and Religion

Chapter 17: The Spiritual Revolution: from 'Religion' to 'spirituality'

Index
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Spirituality and the Secular Quest (Chap. 8 "New Age Spirituality")
by Peter H. Van Ness. 562 pgs.

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World Spirituality

Board of Editors and Advisors

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Preface to the Series

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Spirituality and the Secular Quest

Notes

Part One: Periods and Movements

1: Sources in Ancient Greece and Rome

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2: Sources Outside of Europe

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3: The European Enlightenment

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4: The American Experience

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5: The Emergence of Historical Consciousness

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6: The Flowering of the Romantic Spirit

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7: Deconstructionist Aestheticism

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8: New Age Spirituality

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Part Two: Themes and Practices

9: Holistic Health Practices

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10: Psychotherapies

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11: Twelve Step Programs

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12: Feminist Spirituality

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13: Gay Spirituality

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14: Social Justice Struggle

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15: Scientific Inquiry

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16: Naturalistic Recreations

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17: Ecological Activism

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18: Arts

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19: Sports

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20: Games

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Indexes
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Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults (Chap. 8 "The New Age")
by Steve Bruce. 256 pgs.

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Peface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1: Introduction

2: The Foundations of Modernity

3: The Erosion of the Supernatural

4: Structuring Religion

5: Religion, Ethnicity, and Social Change

6: America and God

7: The New Religions of the 1970s

8: The New Age

9: Conclusions

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Index
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The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (Chap. 20 "The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and 'New Age'")
by James R. Lewis. 544 pgs.

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The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies. This Handbook covers the current state of the field and breaks new ground. Its contributors are drawn equally from sociology and religious studies and include both established scholars and "rising stars" in the field. The core chapters deal with such central issues as conversion, the brainwashing debate, millennialism, and modernization. Another section deals with NRM subfields such as neopaganism, satanism, and UFO religions. The final section considers NRMs in global perspective.

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Contributors

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

Overview

References

Chapter 1: An Introduction to New Religions

Notes

Part I: Modernization and New Religions

Chapter 2: Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and the Reenchantment of the West

Notes

Chapter 3: The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Chapter 4: Science and Religion in the New Religions

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Chapter 5: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web

Notes

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Part II: Social Conflict

Chapter 6: Violence and New Religious Movements

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Chapter 7: Legal Dimensions of New Religions

Notes

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Chapter 8: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure

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Chapter 9: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism

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Chapter 10: Satanism and Ritual Abuse

Notes

Chapter 11: Conversion and “Brainwashing” in New Religious Movements

Notes

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Chapter 12: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements

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Part III: Social and Psychological Dimensions

Chapter 13: Psychology and the New Religious Movements

Notes

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Chapter 14: Millennialism

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Chapter 15: Function, Reality Construction, and Process

Notes

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Chapter 16: Women in New Religious Movements

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Chapter 17: Children in New Religious Movements

Notes

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Part IV: Neo-Pagans, Ufos, and Other Heterodoxies

Chapter 18: UFO Religions and “Ufological” Themes in New Religious Movements

Notes

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Chapter 19: Esotericism in New Religious Movements

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Chapter 20: Seekers, Networks, and “New Age”

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Chapter 21: New Religions in East Asia

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Chapter 22: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism

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Strained Bedfellows: Pagans, New Agers, and 'Starchy Humanists' in Unitarian Universalism, in Sociology of Religion
by Richard Wayne Lee. 18 pgs.

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Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis (Chap. 1 "The Evolution of a New Age Cult: From Total Overcomers Anonymous to Death at Heaven's Gate")
by William W. Zellner, Marc Petrowsky. 182 pgs.

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American society is culturally diverse with a variety of religious denominations, sects, cults, and self-help groups vying for members. This volume analyzes nine of these groups, chosen both for their intrinsic interest and because they illustrate a variety of sociological concepts. The groups included in this study are: Heaven's Gate, Jesus People USA, the Love Family, The Farm, Amish Women, Scientology, El Nino Fidencio, Santeria, and Freedom Park. The contributors are social scientists with first-hand knowledge of the groups they examine.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The Evolution of a New Age Cult: from Total Overcomers Anonymous to Death at Heaven's Gate

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Chapter 2: Jesus People Usa

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Chapter 3: The Farm

Chapter 4: The Love Family: Its Formative Years

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Chapter 5: El NiñO Fidencio and the Fidencistas

Notes

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Chapter 6: Santería

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Chapter 7: Single Women in Amish Society

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Chapter 8: The Church of Scientology: a Quasi Religion

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Chapter 9: Freedom Park

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About the Editors and Contributors
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Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health Reform (Chap. 12 "Religious Awakening, New Age Religions, and Wellness")
by Ruth Clifford Engs. 316 pgs.

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Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These "clean living" cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a religious awakening. Simultaneously with these awakenings, out groups such as immigrants and/or youth were seen to exhibit behaviors that undermined society. Middle class fear of these "dangerous" classes and a desire to eliminate disease, crime, and other perceived health or social problems led to crusades in each of the three reform eras against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, certain foods, and sexual behaviors. A backlash began to emerge from some segments of the population against reform efforts. After the dissipation of the activism phase, laws made during the reform era often became ignored or repealed. With a few exceptions, during the 30 to 40 year ebb of the cycle, the memory of the movement disappeared from public awareness.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Clean Living Movements: An Overview

Notes

Part I: The First Clean Living Movement, 1830-1860

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2: Millennialism, New Religions, and Health Reform

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3: Temperance, Tobacco, and Women's Rights

4: Christian Physiology, Diet, and Sexuality

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5: Inherited Realities, Phrenology, and Groups with Quasi-Eugenic Undercurrents

6: Nativism, Cholera, Public Health, and Cures

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Part II: The Second Clean Living Movement, 1880-1920

7: Religious Zeal, Physical Culture, and Diet

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8: Saloons, Suffrage, and Smoking

9: Eugenics, Purity, and Birth Control

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10: Pure Food and Drugs and the Elimination of Dope""

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11: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Influenza

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Part III

12: Religious Awakening, New Age Religions, and Wellness

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13: Drunk Driving, Smoke-Free Environments, and the War Against Drugs""

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14: Women's Lib, Neo-Purity, and Aids

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15: Fitness, Health, and the New Eugenics

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Epilogue

References and Bibliography

Index

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The Problem of Context (Chap. 7 "The Holistic Individual Context as Political Process in the New Age Movement")
by Roy Dilley. 242 pgs.

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This book arises from the sixth conference or workshop in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. It collects together those papers of immediate anthropological interest, with the aim of presenting a focused set of chapters.

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Methodology and History in Anthropology

CONTENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF CONTEXT

Chapter 1: CONTEXTUALISATION AND PARADIGM SHIFTS

Chapter 2: CONTEXT, THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE

Chapter 3: NEW PARADIGM THINKING IN LINGUISTICS MEANING IS THE CONTEXT

Chapter 4: ETHNOGRAPHIC MISUNDERSTANDING AND THE PERILS OF CONTEXT

Chapter 5: AS THEY LIKE IT OVERINTERPRETATION AND HYPOREALITY IN BALI

Chapter 6: CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION REFLECTIONS ON NYAU RITUALS IN MALAWI

Chapter 7: THE HOLISTIC INDIVIDUAL CONTEXT AS POLITICAL PROCESS IN THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT

Chapter 8: CONTEXT AS AN ACT OF PERSONAL EXTERNALISATION GREGORY BATESON AND THE HARVEY FAMILY IN THE ENGLISH VILLAGE OF WANET

Chapter 9: CULTURE AND CONTEXT THE EFFECTS OF VISIBILITY

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Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing (Chap. 4 "Neo-Shamanism and the New Age")
by Merete Demant Jakobsen. 274 pgs.

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Pristine shamanism in Greenland is examined and the ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Shamanism: Definition and Description

Chapter 2: Early Encounters between Explorers, Missionaries and Shamans

Chapter 3: The Greenlandic Angakkoq

Chapter 4: Neo-Shamanism and the New Age

Chapter 5: The Revival of Shamanism in Other Cultures

Conclusion

Appendix: Advanced Courses in Shamanism

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Subject Index

Name Index
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Rave Culture and Religion (Chap. 12 "Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibza and Goa")
by Graham St. John. 314 pgs.

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The collection provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially 'New Age' and 'Neo-Paganism') through studies of rave's Gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture, and investigations of transnational digital-art countercultures manifesting at geographic locations as diverse as Goa, India, and Nevada's Burning Man festival. Contributors examine raving as a new religious or revitalization movement; a powerful locus of sacrifice and transgression; a lived bodily experience; a practice comparable with world entheogenic rituals; and as evidencing a new Orientalism. Rave Culture and Religion will be essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of sociology, cultural studies and religious studies.

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Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Techno Culture Spirituality

1: The Difference Engine

2: Ephemeral Spirit

Part II: Dance, Rapture and Communion

3: Rapturous Ruptures

4: 'Connectedness' and the Rave Experience

5: The Flesh of Raving

6: Entheogenic Dance Ecstasis: Cross-Cultural Contexts

7: The 'Natural High'

8: Selecting Ritual

9: Sounds of the London Underground

10: Gamelan, Techno-Primitivism, and the San Francisco Rave Scene

11: Techno Millennium

12: Global Nomads

13: Hedonic Tantra

14: Goa Trance and Trance in Goa

15: Dancing on Common Ground

Index
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New Age and Neopagan Religions in America
by Sarah M. Pike. 220 pgs.

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Introduction

Chapter One: Ancient Mysteries in Contemporary America

Chapter Two: Introduction to the Religious Worlds of Neopagans and New Agers

Chapter Three: Early Varieties of Alternative Spirituality in American Religious History

Chapter Four: The 1960s Watershed Years

Chapter Five Healing and Techniques of the Self

Chapter Six: "All Acts of Love and Pleasure Are My Rituals": Sex, Gender, and the Sacred

Chapter Seven: The Age of Aquarius

Chronology

Notes

Glossary

Resources for the Study of New Age and Neopagan Religions

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