UID:
edocfu_9959230184702883
Format:
xviii, 284 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-63696-2
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0-88946-864-8
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9786610329120
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1-280-32912-2
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0-203-12916-4
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0-203-15991-8
Content:
New Religious Movements: Challenge & Response is the most comprehensive, wide-ranging study on the global impact of new religions. * New religions discussed include Hare Krishna, Sikh Dharma, The Unification Church, The Church of Scientology, The Jesus People and Wicca. * Focuses on the rise of new religious movements in Italy, Brazil, United States, Germany and Britain. * The contributors are among the most respected and reputable experts in the field.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 1 -- 1 New Religious Movements: Their incidence and significance -- Introduction -- Statistical significance -- How many NRMs are there now? -- Definitions of movements -- Numbers of movements -- How many members? -- Definitions of membership -- Double-counting -- Turnover -- The cultural milieu -- Generalising about NRMs -- Who joins NRMs? -- Temporal differences -- Spatial differences -- England -- Japan -- Eastern Europe and the traditionally Christian Former Soviet Union (FSU) -- Cultural adaptability -- The significance of NRMs for individuals -- Members -- Members' relations and friends -- The significance of NRMs for the rest of society -- The NRMs of the Gaps -- Media and anti-cultists -- The law -- Mainstream traditions in the West -- NRMs as an indicator of perceived vulnerability -- The significance of NRMs for the sociology of religion -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 2 -- 2 The Easternisation of the West -- Introduction: a changing vocabulary -- Changing beliefs -- Spiritual and mystical religion -- Easternisation -- Why has this happened? -- Problems with the thesis -- Instrumental activism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 3 -- 3 Prosperity and the New Age Movement: The efficacy of spiritual economics -- Introduction -- A frame of reference -- New worlds: from rejection to affirmation -- Prosperity beyond the counter-culture -- Specialised trainings, events, businesses, and publications -- Less specialised activities and publications -- Numerical significance -- New Age understanding of the efficacy of prosperity practices -- Magical productivity -- Management trainings and transformational productivity -- Sanctifying capitalism -- Matters of efficacy.
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1 Magical power: productive or counter-productive? -- 2 Inner-directed wisdom -- 3 Transformed character -- 4 Work ethics -- 5 Stresses of capitalism -- Some broader considerations -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 4 -- 4 New Religious Movements: The legal dimension -- Introduction -- Religious freedom under British law -- Freedom of belief and freedom of practice -- The secular analysis of religion -- Objectivity and New Religious Movements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 5 -- 5 The mass media and New ReligiousMovements -- Introduction -- Controversial cults -- The anti-cult movement -- The portrayal of NRMs in the mass media -- Conflict and newsworthiness -- Conflict as the leitmotiv -- Cross-references to conflict -- Conflict feeds on stories of conflict -- Conflicts, journalists and control -- One conflict can hide another -- Journalists and academic researchers -- Time -- Objectivity -- Practical and theoretical interests -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 6 -- 6 New Religious Movements and mental health -- Introduction -- Deep theories and empirical studies -- The effects on children -- Mental health and religion in general -- Stress, defence, coping - and religion -- Stress and NRMs -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 7 -- 7 Women in New ReligiousMovements -- Gender roles in NRMs -- Women in power in the Osho movement -- Discipleship: the path of feminine spirituality? -- Sexual abuse: the shadow side of the master-disciple relationship -- Sexuality and marriage in NRMs -- Free love and hedonism as spiritual path -- The path of purity and celibacy -- Spiritually arranged marriages -- Motherhood and community: beyond the nuclear family -- Female spiritual leadership in NRMs -- A new typology of spiritual needs and values -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 8 -- 8 New Religious Movements and theChurche s -- An example of the challenge.
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NRMs are not a new phenomenon -- NRMs in theological perspective -- Teaching truth -- Teaching -- Information -- Commitment -- An acknowledgement of complexity -- Parallels -- Contrasts -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 9 -- 9 DamanhurA magical community in Italy -- Alternative spirituality in Piedmont -- The origins and history of Damanhur -- The origins and history of Damanhur -- Damanhur's world-view -- The Underground Temple -- The future of Damanhur -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 10 -- 10 Japanese New Religious Movements in Brazil: From ethnic to 'universal' religions -- Introduction -- The salient features of Japanese NRMs -- The response to modernity -- The Brazilian context and the Japanese heritage -- The process of Brazilianisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 11 -- 11 Anti-cultists in the United States: An historical perspective -- Introduction -- From FREECOG to CFF2 -- Programme and ideology -- Jonestown and the revival of anti-cultism -- International anti-cultism -- The rise and fall of brainwashing -- The collapse of the Cult Awareness Network -- The revival of anti-cultism in Europe -- The future -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 12 -- 12 The response to New Religious Movements in East Germany after reunificat ion -- The background -- Labelling theory and the Jugendreligionen -- The moral crusade in the former East Germany -- Strategies in opinion formation -- The case of Scientology -- The role of the Churches -- Clerical motivations -- Notes -- Summary of Chapter 13 -- 13 Britain's anti-cult movement -- Introduction -- Types of opposition -- The secular anti-cult groups -- Christian anti-cult groups -- De-programming -- Assessing anti-cult achievements -- Effects of the anti-cult movement -- Notes -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-20049-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-20050-4
Language:
English
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