| Description |
xv, 544 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contributors -- Overview / James R. Lewis -- 1. An introduction to new religions / J. Gordon Melton -- pt. 1. Modernization and new religions -- 2. Alternative spiritualities, new religions, and the reenchantment of the West / Christopher Partridge -- 3. The sociocultural significance of modern new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- 4. Science and religion in the new religions / Mikael Rothstein -- 5. Virtually religious : new religious movements and the World Wide Web / Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden -- pt. 2. Social conflict -- 6. Violence and new religious movement / David G. Bromley -- 7. Legal dimensions of new religions / James T. Richardson -- 8. The North American anti-cult movement : vicissitudes of success and failure / Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley and Susan E. Darnell -- 9. Something peculiar about France : anti-cult campaigns in Western Europe and French religious exceptionalism / Massimo Introvigne -- 10. Satanism and ritual abuse / Philip Jenkins -- 11. Conversion and "brainwashing" in new religious movements / Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins -- 12. Leaving the fold : disaffiliating from new religious movements / David G. Bromley -- pt. 3. Social and psychological dimensions -- 13. Psychology and the new religious movements / John A. Saliba -- 14. Millennialism / Richard Landes -- 15. The mythic dimensions of new religious movements : function, reality construction, and process / Diana G. Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick -- 16. Women in new religious movements / Susan J. Palmer -- 17. Children in new religious movements / Charlotte E. Hardman -- pt. 4. Neo-pagans, UFOs, and other heterodoxies -- 18. Waiting for the "big beam" : UFO religions and "ufological" themes in new religious movements / Andreas Grünschloss -- 19. Esotericism in new religious movements / Olav Hammer -- 20 The dynamics of alternative spirituality : seekers, networks, and "new age" / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- 21. New religions in East Aisa / Michael Pye -- 22. Witches, wiccans, and new-pagans : a review of current academic treatments of neo-paganism / Síân Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch -- Index. |
| Subject |
Cults.
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Cults. |
| Added Author |
Lewis, James R.
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| Added Title |
New religious movements |
| ISBN |
0195149866 alkaline paper |
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