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Satanism
Häftad, 2024
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What is Satanism? The word has functioned as a powerful indictment of one's rivals, an expression of rebellion against authority, and sometimes to describe the deliberate worship of dark, supernatural forces. This Element provides a concise overview of Satanism from its origins in early modern …
Children in New Religious Movements
Häftad, 2024
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New Religious Movements have arisen not only in the present but have also developed in the past. While they differ in ideology and practice, they generally seem to live in high tension with mainstream society, especially when it comes to child-rearing. This Element examines several aspects of …
New Religious Movements and Science
Häftad, 2023
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This Element shows how New Religious Movements variously conceptualize science and provides readers with an overview of the scholarly conversation surrounding this phenomenon. The first section describes five movements that, in different ways, include relevant references to science in their …
Brainwashing
Reality or Myth?
Häftad, 2022
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The events of January 6, 2021 gave new currency to the idea of brainwashing. Some claimed that Trump's followers had been brainwashed, while others insisted that a 'deep state' had brainwashed most Americans into accepting a rigged election. Scholars who explain that brainwashing theories have long …
L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies
Häftad, 2022
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This Element surveys the history and practice of Scientology studies over the past sixty years and offers resources for scholars and students moving forward. Section 1 reviews the history of academic research on the subject from 1958 to the present day. Section 2 draws on the author's fieldwork …
New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
Häftad, 2024
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This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of …
Religious Innovation in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Av Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein
Häftad, 2023
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The scholarly study of new religious movements focuses on the contemporary period, but religious innovation is nothing new. This Element explores a historical epoch characterized by a multitude of emergent religious concepts and practices - the Hellenistic and Roman periods. A precondition for the …
Peoples Temple and Jonestown in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2022
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The new religious movement of Peoples Temple, begun in the 1950s, came to a dramatic end with the mass murders and suicides that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978. This analysis presents the historical context for understanding the Temple by focusing on the ways that migrations from Indiana to …
From Radical Jesus People to Virtual Religion
The Family International
Häftad, 2023
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The Family International (formerly the Children of God) emerged from the radical fringe of the Jesus People Movement in the late 1960s to establish a new religious movement with communities in ninety countries. Characterized from its early days by controversy due to its unconventional version of …
The Sound Current Tradition
A Historical Overview
Häftad, 2022
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The practice of listening to subtle, inner sounds during meditation to concentrate and elevate the mind has a long history in various religions around the world, including Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Today there are a number of new religious movements that have …
The Christian Countercult Movement
Häftad, 2023
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Many seemingly strange questions on yoga, salvation, religious pluralism, and so forth have been actively debated among members of a small but influential group of evangelical apologists known as the Christian countercult movement. This Element explores the history of this movement from its origins …
The New Age Movement
Häftad, 2024
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This Element introduces New Age religion. The New Age Movement is a loosely cohesive conglomerate of different spiritual currents with no common founder, leader, institution, dogma, or scripture. Because of its diversity, it may appear amorphous and incoherent at first sight. This Element …
Hare Krishna in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2023
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The Hare Krishna movement is a modern manifestation of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, which has its roots in sixteenth century West Bengal, India. The tradition was institutionalized in a modern form when it was registered as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in New …
The Unification Church Movement
Häftad, 2023
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This Element recounts the tumultuous history of the Unification Church Movement, deriving from the messianic ministry of MOON Sun Myung (1920-2012). It begins with the UCM's origins in Korea and traces its development into a global conglomerate of churches, related nonprofit organizations, and …
Fieldwork in New Religious Movements
Häftad, 2024
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New religious movements are often described as bizarre and sinister. Direct acquaintance, however, often gives a different impression from media portrayals and even from some academic writing. After decades of undertaking fieldwork, the author George Chryssides discusses his experiences, as well as …
Wearing Their Faith
New Religious Movements, Dress, and Fashion in America
Av Lynn S. Neal
Häftad, 2025
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New Religious Movements (NRMs) have a long, interconnected history with distinct forms of dress and clothing. However, research on NRMs has not focused sufficiently on the clothing and material culture of these groups. In response, this Element examines the central role that dress plays in the …
New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity
Av Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
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Although new religious movements (NRMs) are characterized as diverse and unique, this Element analyzes the cultural logic underlying this apparent diversity from a sociological approach. Section 1 demonstrates that NRMs are substantially shaped by the Romantic counterculture emerging around the …
J. Krishnamurti
Self-Inquiry, Awakening, and Transformation
Häftad, 2025
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This Element explores the life, teaching, and legacy of philosopher and spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti. From an obscure childhood in south India, he was 'discovered' at age fourteen by the Theosophical Society as the vehicle for the prophesied World Teacher of this cosmic age. At age 34, he …
New Religious Movements in Islam
Häftad, 2026
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New Religious Movements (NRMs) have emerged periodically from the formative period of Islam to the present day. This Element considers a representative sample, organized by chronological period and then by type. In earlier periods, particular features of Islam either encouraged or discouraged the …
Communal Societies and New Religious Movements
Häftad, 2024
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Popular understanding of communal societies tends to focus on the 1960s hippie colonies and ignores the rich and long history of communalism in the United States. This Element corrects that misperception by exploring the synergy between new religious movements and communal living, including the …
The Transcendental Meditation Movement
Häftad, 2023
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This Element provides a comprehensive overview of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Movement and its offshoots. Several early assessments of the as a cult and/or new religious movement are helpful, but are brief and somewhat dated. This Element examines the TM movement's history, beginning in …
Jehovah's Witnesses
Av Jolene Chu, Ollimatti Peltonen
Häftad, 2025
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Jehovah's Witnesses began as an informal Bible study group in the 1870s that sought to recover first-century Christian beliefs and practices. They disseminated literature announcing the expected reign of God's Kingdom and called themselves Bible Students. In 1931, they adopted the name Jehovah's …
Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates
Av Trude Fonneland, Tiina Äikäs
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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This Element takes its starting point in shamanism in the Nordic countries and explores expressions and the lives of shamanic materialities in contemporary Finland and Norway. Shamans interact with spiritual powers and beings, but their religious practices unfold in a material reality. In this …
Black Hebrew Israelites
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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The Black Hebrew Israelite movement claims that African Americans are descendants of the Ancient Israelites and has slowly become a significant force in African American religion. This Element provides a general overview of the BHI movement, its diverse history/ies, ideologies, and practices. The …
The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
Häftad, 2024
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The rise of entheogenic religion - that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs - has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more …
Slavic Native Faith
Av Kaarina Aitamurto, Scott Simpson
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Since the fall of communist systems across Central and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century, Slavic Native Faith has matured as a religious movement across the region. This diverse movement is comprised of many local and national forms bearing a variety of names, including Rodnoverie and …
Santa Muerte Devotion
Vulnerability, Protection, Intimacy
Häftad, 2025
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In recent decades the cult of Santa Muerte has become a remarkable phenomenon in Mexico's popular religious landscape, from where it has migrated abroad. Due to the uncommon iconography of the robed skeleton and the association with criminality, the Santa Muerte cult has been the object of public …
Communal Societies and New Religious Movements
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Popular understanding of communal societies tends to focus on the 1960s hippie colonies and ignores the rich and long history of communalism in the United States. This Element corrects that misperception by exploring the synergy between new religious movements and communal living, including the …
Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
A Socio-Legal Analysis
Av Sajjad Adeliyan Tous, James T. Richardson
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which religion, especially alternative and emergent religious and spiritual movements, is managed by law and legal mechanisms in the authoritarian theocracy of Iran. It highlights how these phenomena have been affected by the …
Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
A Socio-Legal Analysis
Av Sajjad Adeliyan Tous, James T. Richardson
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which religion, especially alternative and emergent religious and spiritual movements, is managed by law and legal mechanisms in the authoritarian theocracy of Iran. It highlights how these phenomena have been affected by the …
