Encyclopedia of New Religions

Encyclopedia of New Religions
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Publisher : Lion Books
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105127434509
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Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of New Religions by : Christopher Hugh Partridge

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities

Women in New Religions

Women in New Religions
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9781479847990
ISBN-13 : 1479847992
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in New Religions by : Laura Vance

An in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practice Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity.

A Guide to Cults & New Religions

A Guide to Cults & New Religions
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Publisher : IVP Books
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015038914548
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Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis A Guide to Cults & New Religions by :

MacCollam -- Evaluating cults and new religions / LaVonne Neff.

Children in New Religions

Children in New Religions
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Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 0813526191
ISBN-13 : 9780813526195
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Children in New Religions by : Susan J. Palmer

The late 1960s and early 1970s constituted a remarkable period for spiritual experimentation and for the proliferation of new religious groups. Now the children born into these religions have come of age. While their parents made the decision as adults to embrace alternative religious practices, the children have been raised with a very different orientation toward the larger society. While they take their religious communities for granted, many of these children gaze with curiosity at the surrounding secular world which their parents, not they, chose to reject. The contributors to this volume examine children from many different alternative religious movements worldwide, including The Family, Hare Krishna, Wiccans, and Pagans, Messianic Communities, and the Rajneesh (Osho) Movement. The essays explore two general questions: 1) What impact does the presence of children have on a new religion's lifestyle and chance of surviving into the future? 2) Is child abuse more likely to occur in unconventional religions, or are children born into them, the 'new' religions have grown up and have become an important and rapidly changing social force that we cannot reasonably dismiss or wisely ignore

Mystics and Messiahs

Mystics and Messiahs
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780195127447
ISBN-13 : 0195127447
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Mystics and Messiahs by : Philip Jenkins

In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.

Controversial New Religions

Controversial New Religions
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 495
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ISBN-10 : 9780199315314
ISBN-13 : 0199315310
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Controversial New Religions by : James R. Lewis

Written by established scholars as well as younger experts in their field, this updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at the new religious groups that have generated the most attention in the media and general public.

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9780521196505
ISBN-13 : 0521196507
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements by : Olav Hammer

This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.

Handbook of Nordic New Religions

Handbook of Nordic New Religions
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : 9789004292468
ISBN-13 : 9004292462
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of Nordic New Religions by :

When James R. Lewis, one of the editors of the current collection, first moved to Norway in late 2009, he was unprepared to discover that so many researchers in Nordic countries were producing innovative scholarship on new religions and on the new age subculture. In fact, over the past dozen years or so, an increasingly disproportionate percentage of new religions scholars have arisen in Nordic countries and teach at universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic countries. Nordic New Religions, co-edited with Inga B. Tøllefsen, surveys this rich field of study in this area of the world, focusing on the scholarship being produced by scholars in this region of northern Europe.

The New Religious Intolerance

The New Religious Intolerance
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780674065918
ISBN-13 : 0674065913
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Synopsis The New Religious Intolerance by : Martha C. Nussbaum

What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator? Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the United States? In The New Religious Intolerance, Martha C. Nussbaum surveys such developments and identifies the fear behind these reactions. Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, she suggests a route past this limiting response and toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society. Fear, Nussbaum writes, is "more narcissistic than other emotions." Legitimate anxieties become distorted and displaced, driving laws and policies biased against those different from us. Overcoming intolerance requires consistent application of universal principles of respect for conscience. Just as important, it requires greater understanding. Nussbaum challenges us to embrace freedom of religious observance for all, extending to others what we demand for ourselves. She encourages us to expand our capacity for empathetic imagination by cultivating our curiosity, seeking friendship across religious lines, and establishing a consistent ethic of decency and civility. With this greater understanding and respect, Nussbaum argues, we can rise above the politics of fear and toward a more open and inclusive future.

New Religions [2 volumes]

New Religions [2 volumes]
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 637
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ISBN-10 : 9798216122913
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Synopsis New Religions [2 volumes] by : Eugene V. Gallagher

A valuable resource for students and general audiences, this book provides a unique global perspective on the history, beliefs, and practices of emergent faith communities; new religious traditions; and religious movements worldwide, from the 19th century to the present. New Religions: Emerging Faiths and Religious Cultures in the Modern World provides insightful global perspectives on the emergent faith communities and new traditions and movements of the last two centuries. Readers will gain access to the information necessary to explore the significance, complexities, and challenges that modern religious traditions have faced throughout their history and that continue to impact society today. The work identifies the themes and issues that have often brought new religions into conflict with the larger societies of which they are a part. Coverage includes new religious groups that emerged in America, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, the Latter-day Saints, and the Jehovah's Witnesses; alternative communities around the globe that emerged from the major Western and Eastern traditions, such as Aum Shinrikyo and Al-Qaeda; and marginalized groups that came to a sudden end, such as the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Branch Davidians. The entries highlight thematic and broader issues that run across the individual religious traditions, and will also help students analyze and assess the common difficulties faced by emergent religious communities.