Teaching new religious movements / edited by David G. Bromley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bromley, David G.

Series:

AAR teaching religious studies.

AAR teaching religious studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cults--Study and teaching.

Cults.

Sects--Study and teaching.

Sects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; [Atlanta, GA] : American Academy of Religion, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume, a group of senior NRM scholars who have been instrumental in the development of the field offer essays that present the basics of NRM scholarship along with guidance for teachers on classroom use.

Contents:

Teaching new religious movements/Learning from new religious movements / David G. Bromley

Introducing and defining the concept of a new religion / J. Gordon Melton

Disciplinary perspectives on new religious movements : views from the humanities and social sciences / John A. Saliba

Methodological issues in the study of new religious movements / David G. Bromley

New religious movements, countermovements, moral panics, and the media / James T. Richardson and Massimo Introvigne

The meaning and significance of new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson

Deliberate heresies : new religious myths and rituals as critiques / Susan J. Palmer and David G. Bromley

Social building blocks of new religious movements : organization and leadership / E. Burke Rochford, Jr.

The dynamics of movement membership : joining and leaving new religious movements / Stuart A. Wright

Gender in new religions / Sarah M. Pike

Abuse in new religious movements : challenges for the sociology of religion / Janet Jacobs

New religious movements and violence / Thomas Robbins and John R. Hall

Responding to resistance in teaching about new religious movements / Eugene V. Gallagher

Teaching new religious movements on the world wide web / Douglas E. Cowan

Charting the information field : cult-watching groups and the construction of images of new religious movements / Eileen Barker

New religious movements : a bibliographic essay / William Sims Bainbridge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-355) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029217-2

1-4356-0090-8

9786611899622

0-19-803941-7

0-19-517730-4

1-281-89962-3

OCLC:

922953393