Exploring New ReligionsCassell, 1999 - 405 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. |
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... activities or encourage followers to become politically active , none of these activities make sense without a set of fundamental beliefs that underpins them . An NRM's teachings are the fuel by which the religion is driven , and ...
... activities or encourage followers to become politically active , none of these activities make sense without a set of fundamental beliefs that underpins them . An NRM's teachings are the fuel by which the religion is driven , and ...
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... activities are confined to a rather limited production of literature , and it no longer assumes a role either in active campaigning or in the organization of counter- cult training . Such activities are undertaken by the somewhat more ...
... activities are confined to a rather limited production of literature , and it no longer assumes a role either in active campaigning or in the organization of counter- cult training . Such activities are undertaken by the somewhat more ...
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... activities have either brought or encouraged similar law suits in the hope that an NRM might eventually become bankrupt . The counter - cult movement did not remain content with the full force of existing law being brought to bear on ...
... activities have either brought or encouraged similar law suits in the hope that an NRM might eventually become bankrupt . The counter - cult movement did not remain content with the full force of existing law being brought to bear on ...
Contents
The suicide cults 33 1 | 33 |
The old new religions | 77 |
The New Christian movements | 120 |
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