New Religious Movements: Religions of the World Series,9780131834781

New Religious Movements: Religions of the World Series

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780131834781
ISBN10: 0131834789
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher(s): Pearson College Div
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Summary

Using a historical and cultural approach,New Religious Movmentstakes the approach that new religious movements are neither new nor inherently evil or dangerous. The Introduction colorfully demonstrates the variety of NRMs today and how our first impressions of them may be wrong. Also, this text argues that NRMs are a normal response to cultural and social change, not just something that has "happened" to the Western World since the 1960s. This book's topics include Defining New Religious Movements, Modern Heresy, Esoteric Revival, Asian NRMs, African NRMs, Islamic NRMs, and the Global Future of NRMs. An interesting read for those interested in New Religious Movements.

Author Biography

Elijah Siegler is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston, South Carolina

Table of Contents

Foreword 6(2)
Preface 8(2)
Timeline 10(2)
What Are New Religious Movements?
12(12)
Stereotyping NRMs
16(1)
Defining NRMs
17(2)
Explaining NRMs
19(3)
Social change
19(1)
Historical continuity and cultural context
20(2)
Studying NRMs
22(2)
NRMs as Modern Heresy
24(13)
A Short History of Heresy
25(3)
Christian heresy after the Reformation
27(1)
The End of Heretics and the Beginning of Enthusiasts and Cults
28(3)
Development of the modern cult stereotype in nineteenth-century America
29(2)
The Christian Countercult Movement
31(1)
Close-up: The Unification Church
32(2)
The Current Anticult Movement
34(3)
Brainwashing
35(2)
NRMs as Esoteric Revival
37(15)
The Ancient and Medieval Worlds
38(2)
From Renaissance to Enlightenment
40(1)
NRMs in the Nineteenth Century
41(4)
Mormonism
41(1)
Spiritualism
42(1)
Theosophy
43(1)
Mind Cure movements
43(2)
Where are the nineteenth-century new religions now?
45(1)
Esotericism in Twentieth-Century NRMs
45(3)
European currents
45(1)
UFO movements
46(1)
Esotericism meets science
47(1)
Close-up: Channeling Movements
48(4)
Neopaganism
50(1)
The New Age
51(1)
NRMs as Asian Missions to the West
52(13)
The Missionary Impulse
53(3)
Global Buddhism
54(1)
Modern Hinduism
54(1)
Sikh influences
55(1)
East Asian traditions
56(1)
Asian ``NRMs'' in the West Before 1965
56(1)
The World's Parliament of Religions and its Aftermath
57(2)
Asian NRMs in the West: the post-1965 boom
59(3)
Buddhism
60(1)
Hinduism
61(1)
Close-up: Soka Gakkai
62(3)
Sikhism
63(2)
New Religions in East Asia
65(18)
China
65(7)
From prehistory to the early twentieth century
65(3)
The early twentieth century
68(1)
Religion in China today
69(1)
NRMs and qigong
70(2)
Close-up: Falun Gong
72(2)
Vietnam
74(2)
Korea
76(1)
Japan
77(6)
The history of Japanese NRMs
78(5)
New Religions of Africa and the African Diaspora
83(11)
African Neo-Traditional NRMs
84(1)
African Initiated Churches
85(4)
Christianity in Africa: background
85(1)
The development of AICs
86(1)
Understanding AICs
87(2)
NRMs of the African Diaspora
89(3)
Afro-Catholic NRMs
89(1)
African NRMs in North America
90(1)
Rastafarianism
91(1)
Close-up: The Kimbanguist Church
92(2)
Nation of Islam
93(1)
Islamic New Religions
94(11)
Mystical Islamic NRMs: Sufism
96(2)
Revivalism and Scriptural Fundamentalism
98(4)
Al-Qaeda as NRM
101(1)
Close-up: Baha'i
102(3)
The Global Future of New Religious Movements
105(10)
NRMs and Globalization
106(3)
Global Connections: NRMs and the Internet
109(2)
Global Fears: NRMs and violence
111(1)
Is There a Future for NRMs?
112(3)
Notes 115(2)
Glossary 117(2)
Suggested Further Reading 119(3)
Websites 122(3)
Index 125

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