Cults and new religious movements a reader
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Malden :
Blackwell
2003
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| Series: | Blackwell readings in religion
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991006776499708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- The scientific study of religion? You must be joking! / Eileen Barker
- The continuum between "cults" and "normal" religion / James A. Beckford
- Three types of new religious movement / Roy Wallis
- Cult formation: three compatible models / William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark
- False prophets and deluded subjects: the nineteenth century / Philip Jenkins
- The new spiritual freedom / Robert Wuthnow
- Who joins new religious movements and why: twenty years of research and what have we learned? / Lorne L. Dawson
- The joiners / Saul Levine
- The process of brainwashing, psychological coercion, and thought reform / Margaret Thaler Singer
- A critique of "brainwashing" claims about new religious movements / James T. Richardson
- Constructing cultist "mind control" / Rhomas Robbins
- The apocalypse at Jonestown / John R. Hall
- "Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end": the last voyage of the Solar Temple / Jean-Franğcois Mayer
- Women in new religious movements / Elizabeth Puttick
- Women's "cocoon work" in new religious movements: sexual experimentation and feminine rites of passage / Susan J. Palmer
- Why religious movements succeed or fail: a revised general model / Rodney Stark
- New religious and the internet: recruiting in a new public space / Lorne L. Dawson and Jenna Hennebry.
