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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James R Lewis; Jesper Aagaard Petersen |
| ISBN: | 019515682X 9780195156829 0195156838 9780195156836 |
| OCLC Number: | 53398162 |
| Description: | xii, 483 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Groups in the Christian Tradition -- A Family for the 21st Century / James Chancellor -- Spirit Revelation and the Unification Church / James A. Beverley -- Reconstructing Reality : Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown / Rebecca Moore -- Explaining Militarization at Waco : The Construction and Convergence of the Warfare Narrative / Stuart A. Wright -- Part II. Asian and Asian-Inspired Groups -- Family Development and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement / E. Burke Rochford, Jr. -- When Leaders Dissolve : Considering Controversy and Stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh Movement / Marion S. Goldman -- Soka Gakkai : Searching for the Mainstream / Robert Kisala -- Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident : A Critical Introduction / Martin Repp -- The Falun Gong : A New Religious Movement in Post-Mao China / David Ownby -- Notes on the Aumist Religion / PierLuigi Zoccatelli -- Part III. Esoteric and New Age Groups -- Inventing L. Ron Hubbard : On the Construction and Maintenance of the Hagiographic Mythology of Scientology's Founder / Dorthe Refslund Christensen -- The Theosophical Society and Church Universal and Triumphant / James Santucci -- The Order of the Solar Temple and the Quest for the Absolute Sun / Marc Labelle -- From Atlantis to America : JZ Knight Encounters Ramtha / Gail M. Harley -- Heart and Soul : A Qualitative Look at the Ethos of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness / Diana G. Tumminia -- Part IV. Other Groups and Movements -- "Come on up, and I will show thee" : Heaven's Gate as a Post-modern Group / George D. Chryssides -- The Raelian Movement : Concocting Controversy, Seeking Social Legitimacy / Susan Palmer -- White Racist Religions in the United States : From Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans / Mattias Gardell -- Modern Satanism : Dark Doctrines and Black Flames / Jesper A. Petersen. |
| Responsibility: | edited by James R. Lewis and Jesper Aagaard Petersen. |
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Abstract:
Collects papers on specific New Religious Movements (NRMs). Among the movements profiled are such groups as the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, Solar Temple, Scientology, Falun Gong and more. This book is intended for scholars, as well as non-specialists. It complements "Lewis's Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements".
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"This book will be a valuable to scholars and students of American religion, sociology, and psychology of religion, and emergent religions--both as a reference work and as an analytic model." --Choice<br> Read more...
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