Exploring New ReligionsCassell, 1999 - 405 pages Adopting an objective stance, this book examines the teachings and practices of a wide variety of new religious groups. The first two chapters raise general issues about cults, such as definitions, statistics, evangelization tactics, issues of public concern and methods of study. Subsequent chapters deal with new religions by genre - the older minority groups, New Christian groups, Hindu and Buddhist groups, the self-religions and the New Age. Each of these chapters begins with a general discussion of the background to each type of movement and selects three representative movements for greater in-depth study. |
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... buddha - nature within , which seeks to satisfy material desire as well as to seek spiritual truth . Accordingly , Osho has emphasized the concept of ' Zorba the Buddha ' : although the Buddha is the epitome of the enlightened being who ...
... buddha - nature within , which seeks to satisfy material desire as well as to seek spiritual truth . Accordingly , Osho has emphasized the concept of ' Zorba the Buddha ' : although the Buddha is the epitome of the enlightened being who ...
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... Buddha , Gautama , were ' provisional ' : that is to say , they did not contain the whole truth about Buddhism , but merely what humankind was ready to hear in the sixth century BCE . A buddha must use ' skilful means ' to enable his ...
... Buddha , Gautama , were ' provisional ' : that is to say , they did not contain the whole truth about Buddhism , but merely what humankind was ready to hear in the sixth century BCE . A buddha must use ' skilful means ' to enable his ...
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... Buddha , and little , if any , reference to the essential teachings attributed to the Buddha , such as the Four Noble Truths , the Eightfold Path or the Precepts . Indeed the whole ethos of the movement might seem to be quite the ...
... Buddha , and little , if any , reference to the essential teachings attributed to the Buddha , such as the Four Noble Truths , the Eightfold Path or the Precepts . Indeed the whole ethos of the movement might seem to be quite the ...
Contents
The suicide cults | 33 |
The old new religions | 77 |
The New Christian movements 120 2 | 120 |
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