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Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134499701
An essential companion to both research and scholarship upon which undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers and researchers can all be expected to draw.
Author : Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities
Author : Peter Bernard Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9781135001124
New 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 global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three hundred movements 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. Entries are cross-referenced with short bibliographies for further reading. --From publisher's description.
Author : Christopher Partridge
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,4 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 : 545 pages
File Size : 20,62 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 : Prometheus Books
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1615927387
Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging and accessible resource on the historically significant and more obscure, sinister, and bizarre religious groups. Including many entries by scholarly specialists, this volume explains more than 1,000 diverse groups and movements, from such well-known sects as the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate, to obscure groups like Ordo Templi Satanas, Witches International, and the Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus. In addition to an exhaustive index and handy cross-references, the second edition includes over a hundred new topical entries on subjects relevant to understanding sectarian movements, from snake-handling and satanic ritual abuse to brainwashing and exorcism.This book, a must for all libraries and schools, will endure as the first and only point of reference for researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in fringe religious groups.
Author : John A. Saliba
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0585483108
Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions. But arguments tend to become even more heated when the religion under discussion is characterized as new. Divisions around the study of new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, or nontraditional or alternative or emergent religions are so acute that there is even controversy over what to call them. John Saliba strives to bring balance to these discussions by offering perspectives on new religions from different academic perspectives: history, psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. This approach provides rich descriptions of a broad range of movements while demonstrating how the differing aims of the disciplines can create much of the controversy around NRMs. The new second edition has been updated and revised throughout and includes a new foreword by noted historian of religion, J. Gordon Melton. For classes in religion or the social sciences, or for interested individuals, Understanding New Religious Movements offers the most objective introduction possible.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2481 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781608712427
Covers the significant religious denominations and movements that have originated or flourished in North America, from the beginning of European settlement to the present day.
Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438110383
Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.
Author : Adam Possamai
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2320 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529721962
The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion takes a three-pronged look at this, namely investigating the role of religion in society; unpacking and evaluating the significance of religion in and on human history; and tracing and outlining the social forces and influences that shape religion. This encyclopedia covers a range of themes from: • fundamental topics like definitions • secularization • dimensions of religiosity to such emerging issues as civil religion • new religious movements This Encyclopedia also addresses contemporary dilemmas such as fundamentalism and extremism and the role of gender in religion.