New Age: Exploration of outlook-on-life frameworks from a phenomenological perspective

New Age is experienced as being a growing phenomenon. Taking the New Age movement in Sweden as its point of departure, this explorative study attempts to derive a purpose for this outlook and to then describe it from a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. In-depth interviews were applied as the data collection method and selection centred on four men and four women professionally active within the New-Age movement. The domain was derived from three aspects with outlook-on-life conceptualization: theoretical assumptions of humans and the world, a central system of values and basic values. The results indicated that New Age is a religious outlook-on-life which is strongly imprinted with a global outlook, processes of development and the individual. It offers a 'package' or theme during an age of upheavals.