Author: Phillip Charles LucasPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415965764
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Phillip Charles LucasPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415965764
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Prophets and Protons
Author: Benjamin E. ZellerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814797210
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
By the twentieth century, science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions’ understandings of science. The Hare Krishnas, the Unification Church, and Heaven’s Gate each found distinct ways to incorporate major findings of modern American science, understanding it as central to their wider theological and social agendas. In tracing the development of these new religious movements’ viewpoints on science during each movement’s founding period, we can discern how their views on science were crafted over time. These NRMs shed light on how religious groups—new, old, alternative, or mainstream—could respond to the tremendous growth of power and prestige of science in late twentieth-century America. In this engrossing book, Zeller carefully shows that religious groups had several methods of creatively responding to science, and that the often-assumed conflict-based model of “science vs. religion” must be replaced by a more nuanced understanding of how religions operate in our modern scientific world.
New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Phillip Charles LucasPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415965767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Religion in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Mary Pat FisherPublisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A unique and informative survey of the global religious situation as we enter the new millennium. Through a thematic and people-oriented approach, this book provides a valuable introduction to a variety of new religious movements -- whether founded as offshoots of traditional religions or as a result of the Interfaith Movement and the ways in which modern technology is spreading religions both new and old.
Race and New Religious Movements in the USA
Author: Emily Suzanne ClarkPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350063991
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement, this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more. The voices included come from both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a different new religious movement and features: - an introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding - two to four primary source documents about or from the movement - suggestions for further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
Author: Olav HammerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
America's Religions
Author: Peter W. WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In a review in the Journal of Religion, the famed Martin Marty characterized Peter Williams as "a productive wonder" and Americas Religions: Traditions and Cultures as "a rich resource for readers who would like a state of the art comment on the abundant religious phenomena which surround them". Writing in Religion and American Culture, Stephen J. Stein said the book is "not a story of religion in isolation from the rest of American life", but a work that has as a major emphasis the theme of Americanization, of the symbiotic relationship between religions and cultures. Williamss book widely considered the best of its kind, is a comprehensive introduction to the religious history of the United States and the traditions out of which it arose, from colonial times through the late twentieth century. Now including an updated bibliography, it presents descriptions of major religious traditions and introduces distinctive American innovations. Included are not only Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, but African American, Native American, and Asian American traditions. The peace churches, "liberal" churches, and Mormonism also are discussed.
The Future of New Religious Movements
Author: David G. BromleyPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865542389
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Christians in the Twenty-First Century
Author: George D. ChryssidesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317545575
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
'Christians in the Twenty-First Century' examines Christianity as it is understood and practised both by active followers and those who regard themselves as Christian. The book opens with an examination of key Christian concepts - the Bible, the Creeds, the Church and the sacraments - and the major traditions of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism as well as more recent movements. The book continues with an analysis of the challenges presented by the rise of science, new approaches to biblical scholarship, the rise of fundamentalist movements, the ordination of women, secularization, the interfaith movement, and the impact of the electronic revolution.
New Religious Movements
Author: Claire MasonPublisher: NA-r
ISBN: 9780739860328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Offers a brief introduction to new religious movements, discussing why people join them, what effects they have on individual members, their families, and society as a whole, and how governments reconcile the principle of religious freedom with their duty to protect the public from potential harm.