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Author: Ronald M. Enroth
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2005-05-26
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780830823819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociologist Ronald Enroth and a team of expert contributors provide an accessible handle on the key religious movements of our day, from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Jehovah's Witnesses to contemporary versions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
Author: Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher: Lion Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities
Author: Olav Hammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-30
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0521196507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
Author: Eileen Barker
Publisher: Bernan Press(PA)
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Religious Movements
Author: George D. Chryssides
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1441198296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations. Several categories of new religions receive special attention, including African new religions, Japanese new religions, Mormons, and UFO religions. This guide to New Religious Movements and their critical study brings together 29 world-class international scholars, and serves as a resource to students and researchers. The volume highlights the current state of academic study in the field, and explores areas in which future research might develop. Clearly and accessibly organised to help users quickly locate key information and analysis, the book includes an A to Z of key terms, extensive guides to further resources, a comprehensive bibliography, and a timeline of major developments in the field such as the emergence of new groups, publications, legal decisions, and historical events.
Author: Richard Abanes
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891079811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo help guard yourself and your loved ones against unbiblical spiritual systems, Cults, New Religious Movements, and Your Family offers a concise overview of ten religious groups that a young person is likely to encounter in the 21st century.
Author: Paul Oliver
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1441101977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the philosophical, sociological, and psychological themes in new religious movements, and includes a survey and explanation of a few groups.
Author: Peter Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 921
ISBN-13: 1134499698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and spirituality. Moreover, many are having a profound impact on the form and content of mainstream religion. The Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three-hundred movement from almost every country in the world. Coverage includes movements that derive from the major religions of the world and to neo-traditional movements, movements often overlooked in the study of NRMs. In addition to the coverage of particular movements there are also entries on topics, themes, key thinkers and key ideas, for example the New Age Movement, Neo-Paganism, New Religion and gender, NRMs and cyberspace, NRMs and the law, the Anti-Cult Movement, Swedenborg, Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, Lovelock, Gurdjieff, al-Banna, Qutb. The marked global approach and comprehensiveness of the encyclopedia enable an appreciation of the innovative energy of NRMs, of their extraordinary diversity, and the often surprising ways in which they can propagate geographically. The most ambitions publication of its sort, the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements is a major addition to the reference literature for students and researchers of the field in religious studies and the social sciences. Entries are cross-referenced with short bibliographies for further reading. There is a full index.
Author: James R. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0190611529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground. In this all-new volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. T?llefsen bring together established and rising scholars to address an expanded range of topics, covering traditional religious studies topics such as "scripture," "charisma," and "ritual," while also applying new theoretical approaches to NRM topics. Other chapters cover understudied topics in the field, such as the developmental patterns of NRMs and subcultural considerations in the study of NRMs. The first part of this book examines NRMs from a social-scientific perspective, particularly that of sociology. In the second section, the primary factors that have put the study of NRMs on the map, controversy and conflict, are considered. The third section investigates common themes within the field of NRMs, while the fourth examines the approaches that religious studies researchers have taken to NRMs. As NRM Studies has grown, subfields such as Esotericism, New Age Studies, and neo-Pagan Studies have grown as distinct and individual areas of study, and the final section of the book investigates these emergent fields.
Author: Lorne Dawson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2003-06-09
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781405101806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion to address these key questions about new religious movements. Looks at theoretical explanations for cults, why people join and what happens when they do. Brings together the best work on cults by sociologists, historians, and psychologists of religion. A broad-ranging, balanced and clearly organized collection of readings. Includes coverage of topical issues, such as the 'brainwashing' controversy, and cults in cyberspace. Section introductions by the editor situate the nature, value, and relevance of the selected readings in context of current discussions.
