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The Oxford handbook of new religious movements
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
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Overview / James R. Lewis
1. An introduction to new religions / J. Gordon Melton
pt. 1. Modernization and new religions
2. Alternative spiritualities, new religions, and the reenchantment of the West / Christopher Partridge
3. The sociocultural significance of modern new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson
4. Science and religion in the new religions / Mikael Rothstein
5. Virtually religious : new religious movements and the World Wide Web / Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden
pt. 2. Social conflict
6. Violence and new religious movement / David G. Bromley
7. Legal dimensions of new religions / James T. Richardson
8. The North American anti-cult movement : vicissitudes of success and failure / Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley and Susan E. Darnell
9. Something peculiar about France : anti-cult campaigns in Western Europe and French religious exceptionalism / Massimo Introvigne
10. Satanism and ritual abuse / Philip Jenkins
11. Conversion and "brainwashing" in new religious movements / Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins
12. Leaving the fold : disaffiliating from new religious movements / David G. Bromley
pt. 3. Social and psychological dimensions
13. Psychology and the new religious movements / John A. Saliba
14. Millennialism / Richard Landes
15. The mythic dimensions of new religious movements : function, reality construction, and process / Diana G. Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick
16. Women in new religious movements / Susan J. Palmer
17. Children in new religious movements / Charlotte E. Hardman
pt. 4. Neo-pagans, UFOs, and other heterodoxies
18. Waiting for the "big beam" : UFO religions and "ufological" themes in new religious movements / Andreas Grünschloss
19. Esotericism in new religious movements / Olav Hammer
20 The dynamics of alternative spirituality : seekers, networks, and "new age" / Steven J. Sutcliffe
21. New religions in East Aisa / Michael Pye
22. Witches, wiccans, and new-pagans : a review of current academic treatments of neo-paganism / Síân Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch
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9780195149869
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