| Description |
xxi, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Crossroad book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Claude Welch -- Preface / Jacob Needleman -- Introduction / George Baker -- From Sinai to the golden gate: the liberation of religion in the occident / Sydney E. Ahlstrom -- Roots of the American ethos / John Dillenberger -- New religious movements and the structure of religious sensitivity / Joseph E. Chinnici -- Dimensions of new religion in American history / Eldon G. Ernst -- Ethics, ecstasy, and the study of new religions / Theodore Roszak -- Religious movements and the transition in world order / Robert Wuthnow -- The effect of detente on the growth of new religions: Reverend Moon and the Unification church / Dick Anthony & Thomas L. Robbins -- The interpenetration of new religion and religious studies / Walter H. Capps -- Religious studies as "new religion" / Robert N. Bellah -- The impact of the new religions on psychology / Daniel Goleman -- Deep structures in the study of new religions / Harvey Cox -- Toward a religious criterion of religion / Langdon Gilkey -- |
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On knowing how we know about the new religions / Donald Stone -- Reflections on the transmission of Buddhism to America / Charles Prebish -- Charisma and ritual in new religious movements / Frederick Bird -- Radhasoami as a trans-national movement / Mark Juergensmeyer -- New religions and religious liberty / J. Stillson Judah -- Black reflections on the study of new religious consciousness / Archie Smith -- The spiritual movement of radical feminist consciousness / Emily Culpepper -- Researching a fundamentalist commune / James T. Richardson, Mary W. Stewart & Robert B. Simmonds -- What is next in the study of new religions? / Charles Y. Glock -- Integrative and transformative religions / Barbara Hargrove -- Emergent religion in America: an historical perspective / Robert S. Ellwood -- Language and mind in the study of new religious movements / George Baker. |
| Subject |
United States -- Religion -- 1945-
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United States. |
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Religion. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Subject |
Cults -- United States.
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Cults. |
| Added Author |
Needleman, Jacob.
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Baker, George, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0816404038 : $17.50. |
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9780816404032 |
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0816421889 (paperback) $6.95 |
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9780816421886 (paperback) |
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