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Exploring new religions

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
eBook, English, 1999
Cassell, London, 1999
History
1 online resource (x, 405 pages)
9780304336517, 9780304336524, 9780826459596, 9780826438904, 9786611783945, 9781281783943, 0304336513, 0304336521, 0826459595, 0826438903, 6611783946, 1281783943
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Methodological issues
The 'suicide cults'
The old new religions
New religions in the Hindu tradition
New forms of Buddhism
Independent new religions
The Human Potential Movement
New Age, witchcraft and Paganism
The counter-cult movement
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
English
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