Exploring new religions
@inproceedings{Chryssides1999ExploringNR, title={Exploring new religions}, author={George D. Chryssides}, year={1999} }
Methodological issues the "suicide cults" the old new religions the "new Christian" movements new religions in the Hindu tradition new forms of Buddhism independent new religions the human potential movement new age, witchcraft and paganism the counter-cult movement.
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Social Theory and Religion
- Philosophy
- 2003
Introduction 1. Religion: a social constructionist approach 2. Secularisation 3. The vagaries of religious pluralism 4. Globalisation and religion 5. Social theory and religious movements 6.…
New religious movements and the fear of crime
- Law
- 2004
Anti-cult movements have had a significant influence on the creation of the 2001 Anti-Cult Law in France. For the first time, a state apparatus has been put into place against new forms of religion…
Intellectuals of the Other in Religion: Fear and Fascination
- Education
- 2004
The analysis of the role of intellectuals in social life has been widely studied and theorized. However, little application has been made on the involvement of the intellectual in the study of…
Alternative Spiritualities, New Religious Movements, and Jediism in Australia
- Political Science
- 2003
Australia, it could be argued, has a low rate of occurrence of religious intergroup hostility, and can be seen to have a diverse composition of alternative forms of religion; New Age and Neo-Pagan…
Comparing Biographical Backgrounds of Religious Founders and Converts to Those Religions: An Exploratory Study
- Philosophy
- 2009
This paper is an exploratory, preliminary investigation of the possible links between the biographical backgrounds and developmental trajectories of major religious figures such as Jesus Christ,…
Religion, cultural studies and New Age sacralization of everyday life
- Sociology
- 2011
Through an interpretation of New Age spirituality, this article is concerned with how cultural studies – as a discipline that emerged in the shadow of secularization theory – can be involved in the…
Witches write history : remembering the Old religion and constructing a historical imaginary
- Art
- 2008
Contemporary Goddess worship (also known as feminist witchcraft1) is a small but expanding neo-Pagan spiritual path. Practitioners believe in an immanent female deity (the Goddess), they consider the…
New Religion Adherents: An Overview of Anglophone Census and Survey Data
- Economics
- 2004
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…
New age to postmodern age: the cultural location of metaphysical belief
- Art
- 2001
As a cultural trend or a religious force the nature of the New Age has been persistently unclear. This paper proposes that, as a movement, it manifests an older set of concerns and an ancient…