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245 00 $aControversial new religions /$cedited by James R. Lewis, Jesper Aa. Petersen.
250 $aSecond edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2014]
300 $axii, 480 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn terms of public opinion, new religious movements are considered controversial for a variety of reasons. Their social organization often runs counter to popular expectations by experimenting with communal living, alternative leadership roles, unusual economic dispositions, and new political and ethical values. As a result the general public views new religions with a mixture of curiosity, amusement, and anxiety, sustained by lavish media emphasis on oddness and tragedy rather than familiarity and lived experience. This updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at those groups that have generated the most attention, including some very well-known classical groups like The Family, Unification Church, Scientology, and Jim Jones's People's Temple; some relative newcomers such as the Kabbalah Centre, the Order of the Solar Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, and the Falun Gong; and some interesting cases like contemporary Satanism, the Raelians, Black nationalism, and various Pagan groups. Each essay combines an overview of the history and beliefs of each organization or movement with original and insightful analysis. By presenting decades of scholarly work on new religious movements written in an accessible form by established scholars as well as younger experts in the field, this book will be an invaluable resource for all those who seek a view of new religions that is deeper than what can be found in sensationalistic media stories.
505 00 $gIntroduction /$rJames R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen --$tA family for the twenty-first century /$rJames Chancellor --$tThe Unification Church /$rSarah M. Lewis --$tThe controversies about Peoples Temple and Jonestown /$rRebecca Moore --$tThe Branch Davidians /$rEugene V. Gallagher --$tCharismatic controversies in the Jesus People, Calvary Chapel, and Vineyard movements /$rJane Skjoldli --$tKabbalah Centre: marketing and meaning /$rJody Myers --$tControversial Afro-American Muslim organizations /$rGöran Larsson --$tThe earth school: the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness /$rJames R. Lewis --$tContested genealogies and cross-cultural dynamics in the Hare Krishna movement /$rMalcolm Haddon --$tTranscendental Meditation, the Art of Living Foundtaion, and public relations: from psychedelic romanticism to science and schism /$rInga B. Tøllefsen --$tControversy, cultural influence, and the Osho/Rajneesh movement /$rMarion S. Goldman --$tAum Shinrikyo and the Aum incident: a critical introduction /$rMartin Repp --$tFalun Gong: a narrative of pending apocalypse, shape-shifting aliens, and relentless persecution /$rHelen Farley --$tScientology: the making of a religion /$rKjersti Hellesøy --$tThe Church Universal and Triumphant: controversy, change, and continuance /$rJocelyn H. Dehaas --$tThe Order of the Solar Temple /$rHenrik Bogdan --$tNew Age spiritualities /$rSiv Ellen Kraft --$tContemporary Paganism /$rManon Hedenborg-White --$tPopularity of--and controversy in--contemporary shamanism /$rAnne Kalvig --$t"Come on up, and I will show thee": Heaven's Gate as a postmodern group /$rGeorge D. Chryssides --$t"Those who came from the sky": ancient astronauts and creationism in the Raëlian religion /$rErik A.W. Östling --$tWolf age pagans /$rMattias Gardell --$tCarnal, chthonian, complicated: the matter of modern Satanism /$rJesper Aa. Petersen.
650 0 $aCults.
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700 1 $aLewis, James R.,$eeditor.
700 1 $aPetersen, Jesper Aagaard,$eeditor.
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