| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction / BRYAN WILSON -- part Summary of Chapter 1 -- chapter 1 New Religious Movements: Their incidence and significance / EILEEN BARKER -- part Summary of Chapter 2 -- chapter 2 The Easternisation of the West / COLIN CAMPBELL -- part Summary of Chapter 3 -- chapter 3 Prosperity and the New Age Movement: The efficacy of spiritual economics / PAUL HEELAS -- part Summary of Chapter 4 -- chapter 4 New Religious Movements: The legal dimension / ANTHONY BRADNEY -- part Summary of Chapter 5 -- chapter 5 The mass media and New Religious Movements / JAMES A. BECKFORD -- part Summary of Chapter 6 -- chapter 6 New Religious Movements and mental health / LAWRENCE LILLISTON -- part Summary of Chapter 7 -- chapter 7 Women in New Religious Movements / ELIZABETH PUTTICK -- part Summary of Chapter 8 -- chapter 8 New Religious Movements and the Churches / COLIN SLEE -- part Summary of Chapter 9 -- chapter 9 Damanhur: a magical community in Italy / MASSIMO INTROVIGNE -- part Summary of Chapter 10 -- chapter 10 Japanese New Religious Movements in Brazil: from ethnic to 'universal' religions / PETER B. CLARKE -- part Summary of Chapter 11 -- chapter 11 Anti-cultists in the United States: An historical perspective / J . GORDON MELTON -- part Summary of Chapter 12 -- chapter 12 The response to New Religious Movements in East Germany after reunification / FRANK USARSKI -- part Summary of Chapter 13 -- chapter 13 Britain's anti-cult movement / GEORGE D. CHRYSSIDES |
| Summary |
Focusing on five countries (Italy, Brazil, Germany, Britain and the United States), New Religious Movements offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the phenomena and impact of new religions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Religions.
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Cults.
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Sects.
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Worship.
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worship.
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religions (belief systems, cultures)
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Worship.
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Cults.
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Religions.
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Sects.
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Sekte
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Religiöse Bewegung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Godsdienstige bewegingen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilson, Bryan R
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Cresswell, Jamie
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| ISBN |
0203159918 |
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9780203159910 |
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0203129164 |
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9780203129166 |
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9780415200493 |
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0415200490 |
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9780415200509 |
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0415200504 |
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1280329122 |
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9781280329128 |
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1134636962 |
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9781134636969 |
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0889468648 |
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9780889468641 |
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9786610329120 |
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6610329125 |
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