Visioning New and Minority Religions (Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472465881 ISBN 13: 9781472465887

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Rather than being ephemeral fads, new religious movements (NRMs) have always been and will always be with us. So will their study. Offering an assessment of the state-of-the-field of the study of NRMs, Visioning New and Minority Religions begins by considering the analytical tools for the study of new or minority religions, drawing on the perspectives of diverse academic disciplines. The second part focuses on individual groups in a variety of geographical settings. Chapters in this section review the histories of particular groups in order to extrapolate future developments. They cover new religions that have persisted well past the first generation, such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Christian Scientists, and groups with comparatively shorter histories, such as various forms of contemporary Paganism, Soka Gakkai, and the Diamond Way Buddhist group. This volume will be of interest to scholars from across religious studies and sociology, as well as members of new and minority religious groups and those in "cult watching" groups.

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About the Author

Eugene V. Gallagher is the Rosemary Park Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements: New Bibles and New Revelations (2014) and The New Religious Movements Experience in America (2004), co-author (with James D. Tabor) of Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (1995), co-editor of the five-volume Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in the United States (2006), and author of many essays on new religious movements and religions in the ancient Mediterranean world. He is a co-General Editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Alternative Religions and Associate Editor of Teaching Theology and Religion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1472465881
• ISBN 13: 9781472465887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Gallagher Eugene