Revisionism and Diversification in New Religious Movements (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barker, Eileen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores different ways in which, as NRMs develop, stagnate, fade away, or abruptly cease to exist, certain orthodoxies and practices have, for one reason or another, been dropped or radically altered. As part of the Ashgate Inform Series, this book approaches its topic from a wide range of perspectives. Contributors include academics, current and former members of NRMs, and members of 'cult-watching' movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317063605
• Artikelnr.: 44875811

Autorenporträt

Eileen Barker, PhD, OBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion at the London School of Economics, University of London. Her main research interests are 'cults', 'sects' and new religious movements, and the social reactions to which they give rise. She has over 300 publications (translated into 27 different languages), which include the award-winning The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice? and New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction. In 1988, with the support of the British Government and mainstream Churches, she founded INFORM, a charity that provides information about minority religions that is as reliable as possible. She is a frequent advisor to governments, other official bodies and law-enforcement agencies throughout the world, has made numerous appearances on television and radio, and has been invited to give guest lectures in over 50 countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Revision and diversification in new religious movements: an introduction,
Eileen Barker; The family international: rebooting for the future, Clare
Borowik; The changing faces of God: the Hinduisation of the Hare Krishna
Movement, E. Burke Rochford Jr; The post-Sun Myung Moon Unification Church,
Michael L. Mickler; The Church of Scientology, Hugh B. Urban; La Mission de
l'Esprit-Saint: 100 years of prophecies and schisms in a Quebecois NRM,
Susan J. Palmer; The Orthodox Church of the Sovereign Mother of God/the New
Cathar Church, J. Eugene Clay; Appendix: Blessed Father John: additional
information supplied by the Church; Present truth and theological
revisionism among the Branch Davidians, Eugene V. Gallagher; Aum Shinrikyo
and Hikari no Wa, Erica Baffelli; The re-invented wheel: doctrinal
revisions and control of the Falungong, 1992-2012, James W. Tong; Change
and continuity: Hizb ut Tahrir's strategy and ideology in Britain, Shiraz
Maher; The metamorphosis of MEK (Mujahedin e Khalegh), Masoud Banisadr;
When history fails: Mormon origins and historical revisionism, Massimo
Introvigne; Revisionism in the New Age Movement: the case of healing with
crystals, J. Gordon Melton; Intentional communities: the evolution of
enacted Utopianism, Timothy Miller; Changes in North American cult
awareness organizations, Carol Giambalvo, Michael Kropveld and Michael
Langone; Changing vision, changing course: en-visioning/re-visioning and
concentration/diversification in NRMs, David G. Bromley; Index.