Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America [5 Volumes] - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275987124 ISBN 13: 9780275987121

Verlag: PRAEGER FREDERICK A, 2006

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Most new or alternative religious are gravely misunderstood by members of the religious mainstream. Labeled "cults" or "sects," groups and their members are often ridiculed or otherwise disregarded as weird and potentially dangerous by the populace at large. Despite their efforts at educating the general public, the various anti- and counter-cult activists have in fact promoted much more mis-understanding than accurate understanding of the religious lives of some of their fellow citizens. Consequently, they have helped to create a very hostile environment for anyone whose religious practices do not fit within a so-called "mainstream." This set rectifies the situation by presenting accurate, comprehensive, authoritative and accessible accounts of various new and alternative religious movements that have been and are active in American society, and it addresses ways of understanding new and alternative religions within a broader context.

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Eugene V. Gallagher is the Rosemary Park Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of Divine Man or Magician? Celsus and Origen on Jesus (1980), Expectation and Experience: Explaining Religious Conversion (1990), The New Religious Movements Experience in America (2004), and, with James D. Tabor, Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (1995) as well as articles on ancient Mediterranean religions and contemporary new religious movements.

W. Michael Ashcraft is Associate Professor of Religion at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He is the author of The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture (2002) and co-editor with Dereck Daschke of New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader (2005).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PRAEGER FREDERICK A
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0275987124
• ISBN 13: 9780275987121
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1504
• Herausgeber: Ashcraft William M., Gallagher Eugene V.
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