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New Religious Movements

A Documentary Reader
  • ISBN-13: 9780814707036
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Dereck Daschke, Edited by Michael Ashcraft
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 17/07/2005
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 341 pages Weight: 480g
  • Categories: Comparative religion [HRAC]
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New Religious Movements is a highly unique volume, bringing together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of a wide array of new religious movements (NRMs), and offering a first-hand look into their belief systems. Arranged by the editors according to a new typology, the text allows readers to consider NRMS along five interrelated pathways - from those that offer new perceptions of existence or new personal identities, to those that center on relationships within family-like units, to those movements that highlight the need for recasting the social order or anticipate the dawn of a new age. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists, as well as many others. Each section is prefaced by a contextual introduction and concludes with a list of sources for further reading. New Religious Movements offers a rare inside look into the worldviews of alternative religious traditions.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I New Understandings1 Christian Science 2 Theosophy 3 UFO Religious Groups Part II New Selves4 Wicca 5 Soka Gakkai Part III New Families6 The Uni?cation Church7 The Family / Children of God 8 Santeria 9 The Rastafarians 10 The Nation of Islam 11 Peoples Temple Part V New Worlds12 The Adventist Tradition 13 Jehovah's Witnesses 14 The New Millennium: NRMs and the Year 2000 Appendix: Constructing the New Religious Threat: Anticult and Countercult Movements Douglas E. CowanIndex About the Editors
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