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Title The Oxford handbook of new religious movements / edited by James R. Lewis
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 544 pages)
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents Contributors -- 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 Asia / Michael Pye -- 22. Witches, wiccans, and new-pagans : a review of current academic treatments of neo-paganism / Síân Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch -- Index
Summary The study of new religious movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies. This handbook covers the current state of the field, with contributions drawn equally from scholars of sociology and religious studies
Notes "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2008"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cults.
Cults
Godsdienstige bewegingen.
Genre/Form Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, James R.
Other Titles Handbook of new religious movements