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The Oxford handbook of new religious movements. Volume II / edited by James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tøllefsen.

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Other Authors: Lewis, James R. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Cults.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Social-scientific approaches.
  • Categorizing religious organizations: in search of a theoretically meaningful strategy / David G. Bromley
  • Conversion / George D. Chryssides
  • Charisma and authority in new religious movements / Erin Prophet
  • Disaffiliation and new religious movements / Sean E. Currie
  • Seekers and subcultures / James R. Lewis
  • Quantitative approaches to new religions / Margrethe Loov
  • Psychology and new religious movements / John A. Saliba
  • As it was in the beginning: developmental moments in the emergence of new religions / David G. Bromley
  • Part II. Controversy
  • The North American anticult movement / Anson Shupe
  • The Christian countercult movement / Douglas E. Cowan
  • Legal dimensions of new religions: an update / James T. Richardson
  • Brainwashing and "cultic mind control" / James R. Lewis
  • From Jonestown to 9/11 and beyond: mapping the contours of violence and new religious movements / Rebecca Moore
  • Conspiracy theories and new religious movements / Asbjorn Dyrendal
  • Satanic ritual abuse / James R. Lewis
  • Cult journalism / Nicole S. Ruskell and James R. Lewis
  • Part III. Themes.
  • Invention in "new new" religions / Carole M. Cusack
  • Children in new religions / Sanja Nilsson
  • Media, technology, and new religious movements: a review of the field / Shannon Trosper Schorey
  • New religions and science / Jeremy Rapport
  • Gender and new religions / Inga B. Tollefsen
  • Sex and new religions / Megan Goodwin
  • Occulture and everyday enchantment / Christopher Partridge
  • Part IV. Religious studies approaches.
  • Rituals and ritualization in new religious movements / Mikael Rothstein
  • Mythic dimensions of new religious movements: function, reality construction, and process / Diana G. Tumminia
  • Religious experiences in new religious movements / Olav Hammer
  • New religious movements and scripture / Eugene V. Gallagher
  • Material religion / Jessica Moberg
  • Hagiography: a note on the narrative exaltation of sect leaders and heads of new religions / Mikael Rothstein
  • Millennialism: new religious movements and the quest for a new age / Jean-Francois Mayer
  • Part V. Subfields of study.
  • What does god need with a starship? UFOs and extraterrestrials in the contemporary religious landscape / Erik A. W. Ostling
  • Late modern shamanism in a Norwegian context: global networks
  • local grounds / Trude Fonneland
  • Modern religious satanism: a negotiation of tensions / Cimminnee Holt and Jesper Aagaard Petersen
  • Western esotericism and new religious movements / Henrik Bogdan
  • The New Age / Liselotte Frisk, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, and Siv Ellen Kraft
  • The study of paganism and wicca: a review essay / Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson
  • Native American prophet religions / James R. Lewis and Ellen Dobrowolski.

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