| Description |
xxxvi, 837 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 771-813. |
| Contents |
Legitimation of marginal religions in the United States / Leo Pfeffer -- "The law knows no heresy" : marginal religious movements and the courts / John Richard Burkholder -- Uncovering ritual structures in Afro-American music / Morton Marks -- Psychology of the spiritual sermon / Bruce A. Rosenberg -- Ritualization : a study in texture and texture change / Mary Catherine Bateson -- In the beginning was the word : the relationship of language to social organization in spiritualist churches / Irving I. Zaretsky -- Cross-cultural perspectives on the religious uses of altered states of consciousness / Erika Bourguignon -- Prognosis : a new religion? / Felicitas D. Goodman -- Cocoon work : an interpretation of the concern of contemporary youth with the mystical / Raymond H. Prince -- Ritual, release, and orientation : maintenance of the self in the antinomian personality / Nathan Adler -- Sectarianism and psychosocial adjustment : a controlled comparison of Puerto Rican Pentecostals and Catholics / Vivian Garrison -- Spiritualists and shamans as psychotherapists : an account of original anthropological sin / E. Fuller Torrey -- A medium for mental health / Roger Lauer -- Magical therapy : an anthropological investigation of contemporary Satanism / Edward J. Moody -- Belief, ritual, and healing : New England spiritualism and Mexican-American spiritualism compared / June Macklin -- Ideological support for the marginal middle class : faith healing and glossolalia / E. Mansell Pattison -- Hare Krishna movement / J. Stillson Judah -- Meher Baba movement : its effect on post-adolescent social alienation / Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins -- Latter-Day sense and substance / Janet L. Dolgin -- Reasonably fantastic : some perspectives on Scientology, science fiction, and occultism / Harriet Whitehead -- Historical study of marginal American religious movements / John F. Wilson -- Culture crises and new religious movements : a paradigmatic statement of a theory of cults / Allan W. Eister -- Towards a sociology of the occult : notes on modern witchcraft / Marcello Truzzi -- Deprivation and disorganization theories of social movements / Virginia H. Hine -- Pentecostalism : revolution or counter-revolution? / Luther P. Gerlach -- "Publish" or perish : negro Jehovah's Witness adaptation in the ghetto / Lee R. Cooper -- Economic basis for the evolution of Mormon religion / Mark P. Leone. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religious life and customs.
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United States. |
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United States -- Religion -- 1945-
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Religion. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Added Author |
Leone, Mark P.
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| ISBN |
0691071861 |
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9780691071862 |
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