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Researching new religious movements : responses and redefinitions / Elisabeth Arweck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arweck, Elisabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cults--Germany.
- Cults.
- Religion and sociology--Germany.
- Religion and sociology.
- Cults--Great Britain.
- Religion and sociology--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- 2004.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 majority interests. Modern societies need to learn how best to respond to such movements, and how to interpret their benefits and dangers.Researching New Religious Movements provides a cutting-edge analysis of the controversy around new religions in America and Europe today. Drawing on original fieldw
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610291410
- 9781134472444
- 1134472447
- 9781134472468
- 1134472463
- 9780415277549
- 041527754X
- 9781134472475
- 1134472471
- 9781280291418
- 1280291419
- 9780203642375
- 0203642376
- OCLC:
- 437060175
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