Exploring New ReligionsBloomsbury Publishing, 1999 M12 1 - 416 pages An objective, well-researched history of contemporary new religions and cults.New religious movements - popularly known as cults - arouse strong public opinion and most books on the subject are polemical, giving hostile reaction rather than informed exploration. Exploring New Religions provides an account of a wide variety of new religions, focusing on their origins, beliefs and practices, which are set out in a dispassionate way, leaving readers to form their own value judgements. George Chryssides provides important analysis of the killer cults-the Jonestown People's Temple, Waco, the Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate-examining the factors that made their followers willing to die for their cause. Older groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are discussed, and Chryssides traces the development of a variety of strands of spirituality, ranging from New Thought, Spiritualism and Theosophy. Subsequent chapters include the Baha'i, the Family (formerly Children of God), the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON), the Jesus Army, the Rastafarians, the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Unification Church ('the Moonies'). Lower profile groups are also discussed including: EST (Erhard Seminar Training), the New Kadampa Tradition, Brahma Kumaris, Sai Baba, Subud and the Western Buddhist Order. A study of the New Age phenomenon, and an account of societal responses to new religions at religious, societal and political levels is also included. |
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Page 48
... taught that a latter - day King David would arise and lead Israel ( that is , the Church ) to the Kingdom of God . This new David would be a prophet a religious and temporal king . The wicked would be purged from the SDA and those who ...
... taught that a latter - day King David would arise and lead Israel ( that is , the Church ) to the Kingdom of God . This new David would be a prophet a religious and temporal king . The wicked would be purged from the SDA and those who ...
Page 49
... taught that Victor would rise from the dead and once more assume the office of President . Three and a half years would elapse , then in 1959 God would take vengeance on the unbelieving SDAs . Their envisaged programme of end - time ...
... taught that Victor would rise from the dead and once more assume the office of President . Three and a half years would elapse , then in 1959 God would take vengeance on the unbelieving SDAs . Their envisaged programme of end - time ...
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... taught the return of Elijah would herald the last days ( Malachi 4 : 5–6 ) . After Roden's death , his wife Lois led the movement until 1983. It was during Lois Roden's leadership that David Koresh – then known by his given name of ...
... taught the return of Elijah would herald the last days ( Malachi 4 : 5–6 ) . After Roden's death , his wife Lois led the movement until 1983. It was during Lois Roden's leadership that David Koresh – then known by his given name of ...
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... father , and mother , and wife , and children , and brethren , and sisters , yea , and his own life also , he cannot be my disciple . ( Luke 14:26 ) Koresh later taught that Jesus did not die for the 53 2 : THE ' SUICIDE CULTS '
... father , and mother , and wife , and children , and brethren , and sisters , yea , and his own life also , he cannot be my disciple . ( Luke 14:26 ) Koresh later taught that Jesus did not die for the 53 2 : THE ' SUICIDE CULTS '
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... taught that all the community's women belonged to him and that only he was permitted by God to have children . Some of the women became wives , while others ( some may have been minors ) were commanded as a special privilege to enter ...
... taught that all the community's women belonged to him and that only he was permitted by God to have children . Some of the women became wives , while others ( some may have been minors ) were commanded as a special privilege to enter ...
Contents
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4 The New Christian movements | 120 |
5 New religions in the Hindu tradition | 164 |
6 New forms of Buddhism | 204 |
7 Independent new religions | 244 |
8 The Human Potential Movement | 278 |
9 New Age witchcraft and Paganism | 315 |
10 The countercult movement | 342 |
Statistical data | 366 |
Compendium | 370 |
Bibliography | 377 |
Index | 392 |
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