New religious movements: challenge and response

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 Ag...

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Contributors: Cresswell, Jamie (Other) ; Wilson, Bryan R. 1926-2004 (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Routledge 1999
In:Year: 1999
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sect / New religion
Further subjects:B Cultes
B Collection of essays
B Godsdienstige bewegingen
B Sectes
B Sects
B Sect
B Electronic books
B RELIGION ; Comparative Religion
B Religions
B Conference program
B Cults
B Religious movement
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Summary: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.
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:0415200490