New Religious Movements (eBook, ePUB)

Challenge and Response
Redaktion: Cresswell, Jamie; Wilson, Bryan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134636969
• Artikelnr.: 38253958

Autorenporträt

Dr Bryan Wilson is a Fellow Emeritus of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on new religious movements. His most recent publications include, Scientology, The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism and Religion in Sociological Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Jamie Cresswell
Institute of Oriental Philosophy
European Centre
Introduction
Bryan R. Wilson
All Souls College
Oxford
Chapter 1. New Religious Movements: Their Incidence and Significance
Eileen Barker
London School of Economics
Chapter 2. The Easternization of the west
Colin Campbell
University of York
Chapter 3. Prosperity and the New Age Movement: The Efficacy of Spiritual Economics
Paul Heelas
University of Lancaster
Chapter 4. New Religious Movements: the Legal Dimension
Anthony Bradney
University of Leicester
Chapter 5. The Mass Media and New Religious Movements
James Beckford
University of Warwick
Chapter 6. New Religious Movements and Mental Health
Lawrence Lilliston & Gary Shepherd
Oakland University
Michigan
USA
Chapter 7. Women in New Religious Movements
Elizabeth Puttick
British-American College
London
Chapter 8. New Religious Movements and the Churches
Very Rev. Colin Slee
Provost of Southwark
Chapter 9. Damanhur: A Magical Community in Italy
Massimo Introvigne
CESNUR
Turin
Chapter 10. Japanese New Religious Movements in Brazil: From Ethnic to 'Universal' Religions
Peter Clarke
King's College
London
Chapter 11. Anti-Cultists in the United States: An Historical Perspective
J. Gordon Melton
University of California Santa Barbara
Chapter 12. The Response to New Religious Movements in Eastern Germany after Re-unification
Frank Usarski
Efurt Pedagogische Hochschule
Chapter 13. Britain's Anti-Cult Movement
George Chryssides
University of Wolverhampton.