The Oxford handbook of new religious movements / edited by James R. Lewis.
Contributor(s): Lewis, James R
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TextPublisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xv, 544 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195149866 (alk. paper)Other title: New religious movementsSubject(s): CultsDDC classification: 200/.9/04 LOC classification: BP603 | .H36 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BP603 .H36 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903048524 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
t Overview / James R. Lewis -- An introduction to new religions / J. Gordon Melton -- PART I. MODERNIZATION AND NEW RELIGIONS -- Alternative spiritualities, new religions, and the reenchantment of the West / Christopher Partridge -- The sociocultural significance of modern new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- Science and religion in the new religions / Mikael Rothstein -- Virtually religious: new religious movements and the world wide web / Douglas E. Cowan, Jeffrey K. Hadden -- PART II. SOCIAL CONFLICT -- Violence and new religious movement / David G. Bromley -- Legal dimensions of new religions / James T. Richardson -- The North American anti-cult movement: vicissitudes of success and failure / Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley, Susan E. Darnell -- Something peculiar about France: anti-cult campaigns in Western Europe and French religious exceptionalism / Massimo Introvigne -- Satanism and ritual abuse / Philip Jenkins -- Conversion and "brainwashing" in new religious movements / Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins -- Leaving the fold: disaffiliating from new religious movements / David G. Bromley -- PART III. SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS -- Psychology and the new religious movements / John A. Saliba -- Millennialism / Richard Landes -- The mythic dimensions of new religious movements: function, reality construction, and process / Diana G. Tumminia, R. George Kirkpatrick -- Women in new religious movements / Susan J. Palmer -- Children in new religious movements / Charlotte E. Hardman -- PART IV. NEW-PAGANS, UFOs, AND OTHER HETERODOXIES -- Waiting for the "big beam": UFO religions and "ufological" themes in new religious movements / Andreas Grünschloss -- Esotericism in new religious movements / Olav Hammer -- The dynamics of alternative spirituality: seekers, networks, and "new age" / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- New religions in East Asia / Michael Pye -- Witches, wiccans, and new-pagans: a review of current academic treatments of neo-paganism / Síân Lee Reid, Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch.