Oxford handbook of new religious movements
Oxford handbook of new religious movements
- New York Oxford University Press 2004
- xv,544p. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview / An Introduction to New Religions / Modernization and New Religions -- Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and the Reenchantment of the West / The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements / Science and Religion in the New Religions / Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web / Social Conflict -- Violence and New Religious Movements / Legal Dimensions of New Religions / The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure / Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism / Satanism and Ritual Abuse / Conversion and "Brainwashing" in New Religious Movements / Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements / Social and Psychological Dimensions -- Psychology and the New Religious Movements / Millennialism / The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process / Women in New Religious Movements / Children in New Religious Movements / Neo-Pagans, UFOs, and Other Heterodoxies -- Waiting for the "Big Beam": UFO Religious and "Ufological" Themes in New Religious Movements / Esotericism in New Religious Movements / The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and "New Age" / New Religious in East Asia / Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism / James R. Lewis -- J. Gordon Melton -- Christopher Partridge -- Lorne L. Dawson -- Mikael Rothstein -- Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden -- David G. Bromley -- James T. Richardson -- Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley and Susan E. Darnell -- Massimo Introvigne -- Philip Jenkins -- Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins -- David G. Bromley -- John A. Saliba -- Richard Landes -- Diana G. Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick -- Susan J. Palmer -- Charlotte E. Hardman -- Andreas Grunschloss -- Olav Hammer -- Steven J. Sutcliffe -- Michael Pye -- Sian Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. III. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Pt. IV. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
9780195149869
2003002013
Cults.
BP603 / .H36 2004
200.904 / OX-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview / An Introduction to New Religions / Modernization and New Religions -- Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and the Reenchantment of the West / The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements / Science and Religion in the New Religions / Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web / Social Conflict -- Violence and New Religious Movements / Legal Dimensions of New Religions / The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure / Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism / Satanism and Ritual Abuse / Conversion and "Brainwashing" in New Religious Movements / Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements / Social and Psychological Dimensions -- Psychology and the New Religious Movements / Millennialism / The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process / Women in New Religious Movements / Children in New Religious Movements / Neo-Pagans, UFOs, and Other Heterodoxies -- Waiting for the "Big Beam": UFO Religious and "Ufological" Themes in New Religious Movements / Esotericism in New Religious Movements / The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and "New Age" / New Religious in East Asia / Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism / James R. Lewis -- J. Gordon Melton -- Christopher Partridge -- Lorne L. Dawson -- Mikael Rothstein -- Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden -- David G. Bromley -- James T. Richardson -- Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley and Susan E. Darnell -- Massimo Introvigne -- Philip Jenkins -- Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins -- David G. Bromley -- John A. Saliba -- Richard Landes -- Diana G. Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick -- Susan J. Palmer -- Charlotte E. Hardman -- Andreas Grunschloss -- Olav Hammer -- Steven J. Sutcliffe -- Michael Pye -- Sian Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. III. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Pt. IV. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
9780195149869
2003002013
Cults.
BP603 / .H36 2004
200.904 / OX-