Antiquity and social reform : religious experience in the Unification Church, Feminist Wicca and Nation of Yahweh / by Dawn L. Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, Dawn L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unification Church.

Nation of Yahweh.

Experience (Religion).

Wicca.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although religious innovation in America has historically been the norm rather than the exception, mainstream Americans have often viewed new religious movements Other suspicion and occasionally Other outright alarm. The question motivating many studies of new religious movements has been "why would someone join these religions?" In Antiquity and Social Reform, Dawn Hutchinson offers at least one answer to this often repeated query. She argues that followers of new religious movements in the 19...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CONCLUSION; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-282-77665-7

9786612776656

1-4438-2308-2

OCLC:

821179690