Researching new religious movements : responses and redefinitions

Researching new religious movements responses and redefinitions

New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious reactions that they evoke from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Arweck, Elisabeth, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge 2004.
2017.
Materias:
Cults > Germany.
Religion and sociology > Germany.
Cults > Great Britain.
Religion and sociology > Great Britain.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009784138106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What this book is about
  • Milestones in a research itinerary
  • Institutions and institutional knowledge
  • Institutions
  • Institutional knowledge
  • Sketching in the cultural background
  • The contours of religious cultures
  • The contours of academic cultures
  • The "anti-cult" movement's response
  • The ACM response in Britain : the case of FAIR
  • The ACM response in Germany : the case of Elterninitiative
  • The response of the mainstream churches
  • The Church of England's response
  • The response of the Protestant Church in German
  • Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW)
  • Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack and Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschuungsfragen
  • The response of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Conclusions.

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