Lewis, J: Controversial New Religions
(Sprache: Englisch)
Written by established scholars as well as younger experts in their field, this updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at the new religious groups that have generated the most attention in the media and general public.
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Written by established scholars as well as younger experts in their field, this updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at the new religious groups that have generated the most attention in the media and general public.
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Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Western Religious Traditions; 1. A Family for the 21st Century; James Chancellor; 2. The Unification Church; Sarah Lewis; 3. The Controversies About Peoples Temple and Jonestown; Rebecca Moore; 4. The Branch Davidians; Gene Gallagher; 5. Charismatic Controversies in the Jesus People, Calvary Chapel, and Vineyard Movements; Jane Skjoldli; 6. Kabbalah Centre: Marketing and Meaning; Jody Myers; 7. Controversial Afro-American Muslim Organizations; Goran Larsson; Part II: Asian and Asian-Inspired Traditions; 8. The Earth School: The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness; James R. Lewis; 9. Contested Genealogies and Cross-cultural Dynamics in the Hare Krishna Movement; Malcolm Haddon; 10. Transcendental Meditation, the Art of Living Foundation and Public Relations:; From Psychedelic Romanticism to Science and Schism; Inga Tollefsen; 11. Controversy, Cultural Influence, and the Osho/Rajneesh Movement; Marion S. Goldman; 12. Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident: A Critical Introduction; Martin Repp; 13. Falun Gong: A Narrative of Pending Apocalypse, Shape-shifting Aliens and Relentless Persecution; Helen Farley; Part III: Western Esoteric and New Age Groups; 14. Scientology: The Making of a Religion; Kjersti Hellesoy; 15. The Church Universal and Triumphant: Controversy, Change, and Continuance; Jocelyn DeHass; 16. The Order of the Solar Temple; Henrik Bogdan; 17. New Age Spiritualities; Siv Ellen Kraft; 18. Contemporary Paganism; Manon Hedenborg White; 19. Popularity of--and Controversy in--Contemporary Shamanism; Anne Kalvig; Part IV: Other Groups and Movements; 20. Come on up, and I will show thee: Heaven's Gate as a Post-modern Group; George D. Chryssides; 21. Those Who Came from the Sky: Ancient Astronauts and Creationism in the Raelian Religion; Erik Ostling; 22. Wolf Age Pagans; Mattias Gardell; 23. Carnal, Chthonian, Complicated: The Matter of Modern Satanism; Jesper Aagaard Petersen; Index $ $ $
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Autoren-Porträt von James R. Lewis, Jesper Aagaard Petersen
James R. Lewis is a prominent, highly-published scholar of New Religious Movements. He is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromso in Tromso, Norway. Lewis currently co-edits three book series and is the general editor for the Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review and the Journal of Religion and Violence. He co-founded the International Society for the Study of New Religions and the Alternative Spirituality and New Age Studies association. Jesper Aa. Petersen is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, specializing in Religious Education and Religious Studies. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity (OUP, 2013) with Per Faxneld. His primary areas of research include contemporary esotericism and occult milieus, non-religion and critical religious education.
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- Autoren: James R. Lewis , Jesper Aagaard Petersen
- 2015, 2nd Revised edition, 480 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199315302
- ISBN-13: 9780199315307
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Englisch
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