Perspectives On New Religious Movements
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Author | : John A. Saliba |
Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-09-08 |
Genre | : 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 | : John A. Saliba |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1474281001 |
This book provides a dispassionate analysis of new religious movements, charting their growth and examining them from a variety of perspectives – sociological, psychological, legal and theological. Saliba then questions whether or not membership harms those who join these new movements and assesses the charge that they 'brainwash' their adherents.
Author | : Olav Hammer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : 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 | : Peter Bernard Clarke |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : 9780415257480 |
This volume provides a complete guide to the global impact and cultural significance of new religious movements.
Author | : Jamie Cresswell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134636962 |
New Religious Movements: Challenge & Response is the most comprehensive, wide-ranging study on the global impact of new religions. * New religions discussed include Hare Krishna, Sikh Dharma, The Unification Church, The Church of Scientology, The Jesus People and Wicca. * Focuses on the rise of new religious movements in Italy, Brazil, United States, Germany and Britain. * The contributors are among the most respected and reputable experts in the field.
Author | : Phillip Charles Lucas |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415965767 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : W. Michael Ashcraft |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2018-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351670832 |
The American public’s perception of New Religious Movements (NRMs) as fundamentally harmful cults stems from the "anticult" movement of the 1970s, which gave a sometimes hysterical and often distorted image of NRMs to the media. At the same time, academics pioneered a new field, studying these same NRMs from sociological and historical perspectives. They offered an interpretation that ran counter to that of the anticult movement. For these scholars in the new field of NRM studies, NRMs were legitimate religions deserving of those freedoms granted to established religions. Those scholars in NRM studies continued to evolve methods and theories to study NRMs. This book tells their story. Each chapter begins with a biography of a key person involved in studying NRMs. The narrative unfolds chronologically, beginning with late nineteenth- and early-twentieth century perceptions of religions alternative to the mainstream. Then the focus shifts to those early efforts, in the 1960s and 1970s, to comprehend the growing phenomena of cults or NRMs using the tools of academic disciplines. The book’s midpoint is a chapter that looks closely at the scholarship of the anticult movement, and from there moves forward in time to the present, highlighting themes in the study of NRMs like violence, gender, and reflexive ethnography. No other book has used the scholars of NRMs as the focus for a study in this way. The material in this volume is, therefore, a fascinating viewpoint from which to explore the origins of this vibrant academic community, as well as analyse the practice of Religious Studies more generally.
Author | : David G. Bromley |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780865542389 |
Author | : James R. Lewis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : 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 | : George D. Chryssides |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0810861941 |
New religious movements--commonly known as cults--are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements have typically resorted to sensationalism rather than objectivity, and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite their unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, however, new religious movements are a global phenomenon and much remains to be studied about these movements. In this newly updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. An updated introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes to the dictionary since the 2001 edition, while the main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index organizes the information in the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about new religious movements.