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Legitimating new religions

Author: James R Lewis
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James R Lewis
ISBN: 0813533236 9780813533230 0813533244 9780813533247
OCLC Number: 51892655
Description: viii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.
Responsibility: James R. Lewis.
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