Name one New Age thinker besides Ken Wilber w/ any depth.
Then go to the university library shelves and peruse Xtian theology and compare say J. Moltmann, Tillich, Barth, Aquinas, Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Kung, Dorothee Solle w/ the bromides from the New Age. Not to say that Xtian apologetics (take a look at David Groothious, for example) for a mass audience aren't emabarrassing crud too. (BTW, there is a new collection of interviews w/ Habermas on religion.)
And, isn't one of habitual peeves upper-middle class hippies? I've met way more upper middle class supporters of Kucinich than manual working class union activists.
Michael Pugliese