New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader - Softcover

 
9780814707036: New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814707033 ISBN 13: 9780814707036
Verlag: Mare Nostrum, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

An original collection of primary documents conveying the wide array of ideas connected to new religious movements

New Religious Movements is a highly unique volume, bringing together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of a wide array of new religious movements (NRMs), and offering a first-hand look into their belief systems.
Arranged by the editors according to a new typology, the text allows readers to consider NRMS along five interrelated pathways-from those that offer new perceptions of existence or new personal identities, to those that center on relationships within family-like units, to those movements that highlight the need for recasting the social order or anticipate the dawn of a new age.
The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists, as well as many others. Each section is prefaced by a contextual introduction and concludes with a list of sources for further reading. New Religious Movements offers a rare inside look into the worldviews of alternative religious traditions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dereck Daschke is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Truman State University.

W. Michael Ashcraft is associate professor of religion at Truman State University and author of The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture. He is a former chairman of the New Religious Movements Group of the American Academy of Religion.

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Verlag
Mare Nostrum
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814707033
ISBN 13 
9780814707036
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
341
Herausgeber
Daschke Dereck, Ashcraft Michael
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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