Controversial New Religions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195156838 ISBN 13: 9780195156836

Verlag: OUP USA, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by James R Lewis Jesper Aagaard Petersen

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Críticas:

"This book will be a valuable to scholars and students of American religion, sociology, and psychology of religion, and emergent religions--both as a reference work and as an analytic model." --Choice "This book will be a valuable to scholars and students of American religion, sociology, and psychology of religion, and emergent religions--both as a reference work and as an analytic model." --Choice "This book will be a valuable to scholars and students of American religion, sociology, and psychology of religion, and emergent religions--both as a reference work and as an analytic model." --Choice "This book will be a valuable to scholars and students of American religion, sociology, and psychology of religion, and emergent religions--both as a reference work and as an analytic model." --Choice

Reseña del editor:

This book complements Lewis's Oxford 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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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195156838
• ISBN 13: 9780195156836
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
• Herausgeber: Lewis James R., Petersen Jesper Aagaard