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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... recent name , with one exception . The name ' Unification Church ' has become so widely known , and it has taken the UC decades to persuade the media to use this name in preference to the pejorative label ' Moonies ' ; the new name ...
... recent name , with one exception . The name ' Unification Church ' has become so widely known , and it has taken the UC decades to persuade the media to use this name in preference to the pejorative label ' Moonies ' ; the new name ...
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... recently as 1931. Institutionally , then , these organizations are not ancient , but recent . One convenient benchmark that is frequently used as a watershed for separating ' old ' and ' new ' religions is the Second World War . Peter ...
... recently as 1931. Institutionally , then , these organizations are not ancient , but recent . One convenient benchmark that is frequently used as a watershed for separating ' old ' and ' new ' religions is the Second World War . Peter ...
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... recent ' I mean recent in inception , not in its arrival in Britain or in any other country in the world . Thus mainstream forms of Hinduism , Buddhism , Islam and Sikhism do not count as new religions , even though they may be new to ...
... recent ' I mean recent in inception , not in its arrival in Britain or in any other country in the world . Thus mainstream forms of Hinduism , Buddhism , Islam and Sikhism do not count as new religions , even though they may be new to ...
Contents
The suicide cults | 33 |
The old new religions | 77 |
The New Christian movements 120 2 | 120 |
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