Controversial New ReligionsJames R. Lewis, Jesper Aa. Petersen Oxford University Press, 2014年7月16日 - 480 頁 In terms of public opinion, new religious movements are considered controversial for a variety of reasons. Their social organization often runs counter to popular expectations by experimenting with communal living, alternative leadership roles, unusual economic dispositions, and new political and ethical values. As a result the general public views new religions with a mixture of curiosity, amusement, and anxiety, sustained by lavish media emphasis on oddness and tragedy rather than familiarity and lived experience. This updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at those groups that have generated the most attention, including some very well-known classical groups like The Family, Unification Church, Scientology, and Jim Jones's People's Temple; some relative newcomers such as the Kabbalah Centre, the Order of the Solar Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, and the Falun Gong; and some interesting cases like contemporary Satanism, the Raelians, Black nationalism, and various Pagan groups. Each essay combines an overview of the history and beliefs of each organization or movement with original and insightful analysis. By presenting decades of scholarly work on new religious movements written in an accessible form by established scholars as well as younger experts in the field, this book will be an invaluable resource for all those who seek a view of new religions that is deeper than what can be found in sensationalistic media stories. |
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REBECCA MOORE | |
LARSSON | |
The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness | |
Contested Genealogies and CrossCultural Dynamics in the Hare | |
Transcendental Meditation the Art of Living Foundation | |
Controversy Change | |
The Order of the Solar TempleHENRIK BOGDAN | |
New Age SpiritualitiesSIV ELLEN KRAFT | |
Contemporary PaganismMANON HEDENBORGWHITE | |
Popularity ofand Controversy inContemporary Shamanism | |
Heavens Gate as | |
Ancient Astronauts | |
Wolf Age PagansMATTIAS GARDELL | |
Controversy Cultural Influence and the OshoRajneesh | |
A Critical Introduction | |
The Making of a ReligionKJERSTI HELLESØY | |
The Matter of Modern Satanism | |
Index | |
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