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Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199315310
Written by established scholars as well as younger experts in their field, this updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at the new religious groups that have generated the most attention in the media and general public.
Author : Olav Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521196507
This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0195127447
In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.
Author : Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9780190258245
In terms of public opinion, new religious movements are considered controversial for a variety of reasons. Their social organisation often runs counter to popular expectations by experimenting with communal living, alternative leadership roles, unusual economic dispositions, and new political and ethical values. As a result the general public views new religions with a mixture of curiosity, amusement, and anxiety, sustained by lavish media emphasis on oddness and tragedy rather than familiarity and lived experience. This book looks at those groups that have generated the most attention.
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190611529
The 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 : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813533247
This work deals explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. It contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. recognizing its status as a genuine religion and thus recognizing its right to exist. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies James Lewis explores the diversification of legitimation strategies of new religions as well as the tactics that their critics use to de-legitimate such groups. Cases include the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, Native American prophet religions, spiritualism, the Church of Christ-Scientist, Scientology, Church of Satan, Heaven's Gate, Unitarianism, Hindu reform movements and Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect. to the legitimation strategies deployed by established religions, the book sheds light on classic questions about the origin of all religions.
Author : Hugh B. Urban
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 069114608X
Hugh Urban tells the real story of Scientology from its cold war-era beginnings in the 1950s to its prominence today as the religion of Hollywood's celebrity elite. Urban paints a vivid portrait of Hubbard, the enigmatic founder who once commanded his own private fleet and an intelligence apparatus rivaling that of the U.S. government. One FBI agent described him as "a mental case," but to his followers he is the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind." Urban details Scientology's decades-long war with the IRS, which ended with the church winning tax-exempt status as a religion; the rancorous cult wars of the 1970s and 1980s; as well as the latest challenges confronting Scientology, from attacks by the Internet group Anonymous to the church's efforts to suppress the online dissemination of its esoteric teachings.
Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9780745952192
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities functioning in today's world
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2009-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199715955
Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. In this book, a group of well-known scholars of New Religious Movements offers an extensive and evenhanded overview and analysis of all of these aspects of Scientology, including the controversies to which it continues to give rise.