TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,James R.
TI  - Oxford handbook of new religious movements 
SN  - 9780195149869
AV  - BP603 .H36 2004
U1  - 200.904 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cults
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Overview; James R. Lewis --; 1; An Introduction to New Religions; J. Gordon Melton --; Pt. I; Modernization and New Religions --; 2; Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and the Reenchantment of the West; Christopher Partridge --; 3; The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements; Lorne L. Dawson --; 4; Science and Religion in the New Religions; Mikael Rothstein --; 5; Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web; Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden --; Pt. II; Social Conflict --; 6; Violence and New Religious Movements; David G. Bromley --; 7; Legal Dimensions of New Religions; James T. Richardson --; 8; The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure; Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley and Susan E. Darnell --; 9; Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism; Massimo Introvigne --; 10; Satanism and Ritual Abuse; Philip Jenkins --; 11; Conversion and "Brainwashing" in New Religious Movements; Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins --; 12; Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements; David G. Bromley --; Pt. III; Social and Psychological Dimensions --; 13; Psychology and the New Religious Movements; John A. Saliba --; 14; Millennialism; Richard Landes --; 15; The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process; Diana G. Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick --; 16; Women in New Religious Movements; Susan J. Palmer --; 17; Children in New Religious Movements; Charlotte E. Hardman --; Pt. IV; Neo-Pagans, UFOs, and Other Heterodoxies --; 18; Waiting for the "Big Beam": UFO Religious and "Ufological" Themes in New Religious Movements; Andreas Grunschloss --; 19; Esotericism in New Religious Movements; Olav Hammer --; 20; The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and "New Age"; Steven J. Sutcliffe --; 21; New Religious in East Asia; Michael Pye --; 22; Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism; Sian Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch
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