Controversial New Religions

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James R. Lewis, Jesper Aagaard Petersen
Oxford University Press, 2005 - 483 páginas
This book complements Lewis's O xford Handbook of New Religious Movements. The former provides an overview of the state of the field. This volume collects papers on those specific New Religious Movements (NRMs) that have generated the most scholarly attention. With few exceptions, these organizations are also the controversial groups that have attracted the attention of the mass media, often because they have been involved in, or accused of, violent or anti-social activities. Among the movements to be profiled are such groups as the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, Solar Temple, Scientology, Falun Gong and many more. The book will function as a reference for scholars, as a text for courses in NRMs, and will also appeal to non-specialists including reporters, law enforcement, public policy makers, and others.
 

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Introduction
3
GROUPS IN THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
17
A Family for the Twentyfirst Century
19
Spirit Revelation and the Unification Church
43
Reconstructing Reality Conspiracy Theories about Jonestown
61
Explaining Militarization at Waco The Construction and Convergence of the Warfare Narrative
79
ASIAN AND ASIANINSPIRED GROUPS
99
Family Development and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement
101
ESOTERIC AND NEW AGE GROUPS
225
Inventing L Ron Hubbard On the Construction and Maintenance of the Hagiographic Mythology of Scientologys Founder
227
The Theosophical Society
259
The Solar Temple Transits Beyond the Millennialist Hypothesis
295
From Atlantis to America JZ Knight Encounters Ramtha
319
Heart and Soul A Qualitative Look at the Ethos of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
331
OTHER GROUPS AND MOVEMENTS
351
Come On Up and I Will Show Thee Heavens Gate as a Postmodern Group
353

When Leaders Dissolve Considering Controversy and Stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh Movement
119
Soka Gakkai Searching for the Mainstream
139
Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident A Critical Introduction
153
The Falun Gong A New Religious Movement in PostMao China
195
Notes on the Aumist Religion
215
The Raelian Movement Concocting Controversy Seeking Social Legitimacy
371
White Racist Religions in the United States From Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans
387
Modern Satanism Dark Doctrines and Black Flames
419
Index
455
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James R. Lewis is Associate Professor of Religion, University of Tromso, Norway.

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