ABSTRACT
Changing concepts concerning the sacred and the human relationship with it inevitably alter redemptive formulae. And so we find that Saviour personalities and scriptural prescriptions for salvation are giving way to self-actualisation techniques. New redemptive mechanisms tend to be highly subjective and individualist in tone. They rely on some degree of supernatural or magical faith, but this is being conceived quite differently from earlier attitudes. Magical and/or supernatural happenings proceed from a divine force or energy rather than a divine person. Religious organisational formats are also consequently being de-hierarchialised and democratised. Ritual and iconography are dramatically reducing. Moral standards are also being deconstructed. As in the previous two chapters, examples from far and wide are cited in evidence of these changes.
