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Legitimating New Religions
This work deals explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. It contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a…
The Pagan Explosion Revisited: A Statistical Postmortem on the Teen Witch Fad
Contemporary Paganism’s explosive growth was big news during the first decade of the new millennium. By the end of the decade, however, it was clear that this rapid expansion had fallen off, and the…
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Free Zone Scientology and Other Movement Milieus: A Preliminary Characterization
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The analysis in the present article uses the Free Zone plus a selection of comparable subcultures associated with other religious groups as case studies to explore the nature and structure of movement milieus.
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The Dream Encyclopedia
Exploring the fascinating world of dreams, this comprehensive reference examines over 250 dream-related topics, from art to history to science, including how factors such as self-healing, ESP,…
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The Cambridge companion to religion and terrorism
1. Does religion cause terrorism? Mark Juergensmeyer 2. Religion, violence, nonsense, and power William T. Cavanaugh 3. Discounting religion in the explanation of homegrown terrorism: a critique…
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Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture
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Handbook of contemporary Paganism
Contemporary Paganism is a movement that is still young and establishing its identity and place on the global religious landscape. The members of the movement are simultaneously growing, unifying,…
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Violence and new religious movements
Introduction I. THEORIZING NRM VIOLENCE 1. Deciphering the NRM-Violence Connection David G. Bromley 2. Minority Religions and the Context of Violence: A Conflict/Interactionist Perspective James T.…
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New Religion Adherents: An Overview of Anglophone Census and Survey Data
General estimates of the extent of the New Religions phenomenon vary considerably. The two basic quantitative questions in this area are: How many groups? And, How many people? These questions are…
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