Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker /
Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker /
edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Introduction / Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Gendered spiritualities / Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Sociology of wisdom / Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- Bryan R. Wilson -- N.J. Demerath III -- Jean-François Mayer -- Margit Warburg -- Marat Shterin -- Thomas Robbins -- Massimo Introvigne -- Jean La Fontaine -- J. Gordon Melton -- Michael Hill -- Phillip E. Hammond -- Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Grace Davie -- Meredith B. McGuire -- Nancy Nason-Clark -- Thomas Luckmann -- Douglas Davies -- Richard K. Fenn. PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS --
Leading scholars examine the growth of new religious movements or cults in the US and Europe over the last 50 years and state attempts to monitor and control them, debating the political, practical and ethical issues which arise.
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Religion and sociology.
Cults.
Sociologie religieuse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology of Religion.
Cults.
Religion and sociology.
Godsdienst.
Moderniteit.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BL60 / .C437 2003eb
306.6
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Introduction / Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Gendered spiritualities / Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Sociology of wisdom / Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- Bryan R. Wilson -- N.J. Demerath III -- Jean-François Mayer -- Margit Warburg -- Marat Shterin -- Thomas Robbins -- Massimo Introvigne -- Jean La Fontaine -- J. Gordon Melton -- Michael Hill -- Phillip E. Hammond -- Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Grace Davie -- Meredith B. McGuire -- Nancy Nason-Clark -- Thomas Luckmann -- Douglas Davies -- Richard K. Fenn. PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS --
Leading scholars examine the growth of new religious movements or cults in the US and Europe over the last 50 years and state attempts to monitor and control them, debating the political, practical and ethical issues which arise.
0203299434 (electronic bk.) 9780203299432 (electronic bk.) 9781134392049 (electronic bk.) 1134392044 (electronic bk.) 9781134392032 1134392036 (Cloth)
9781134392032 Ingram Content Group
GBA423358 bnb GBB737976 bnb GBA4-23358
017500334 Uk
Religion and sociology.
Cults.
Sociologie religieuse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology of Religion.
Cults.
Religion and sociology.
Godsdienst.
Moderniteit.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BL60 / .C437 2003eb
306.6