Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist (Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements) - Softcover

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9781409449966: Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist (Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1409449963 ISBN 13: 9781409449966
Verlag: Routledge, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This volume gives a concise but comprehensive overview of the rich diversity of prophecy, its role in major world religions as well as in new religions and alternative spiritualities, its social dynamics and its impact on individuals' lives. Academic analyses are complemented with contextualized primary source testimonies of those who live and have lived within a prophetic framework.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Harvey, MSc is a Research Officer at Inform where she has worked since 2001. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester in Comparative Religion and Social Anthropology and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Social Research Methods (Sociology). She is also currently a PhD student at the University of Kent researching the natural childbirth movement. At Inform, her research focuses on Pagan religions, new Christian movements, the 'new age' milieu and 2012 prophecies. She has recently guest edited a special issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. Dr. Suzanne Newcombe is a Research Officer at Inform where she has worked since 2002. She is also an Associate Lecturer for the Open University in the East of England and has lectured in the field of new and alternative religious movements at Kingston University. Her PhD research at the University of Cambridge explored the popularization and development of yoga and Ayurvedic medicine in Britain. She continues to be active in research networks in this area and has published articles in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, Religion Compass and Asian Medicine, as well as contributing chapters to a number of edited books.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1409449963
ISBN 13 
9781409449966
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
312
Herausgeber
Newcombe Suzanne
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Verantwortliche Person
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