The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements

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Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein
Cambridge University Press, 30.8.2012 - 341 sivua
New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years come to be treated in the same way as established religions, that is, as complex cultural phenomena involving myths, rituals and canonical texts. This Companion discusses key features of NRMs from a systematic, comparative perspective, summarizing results of forty years of research. The volume addresses NRMs that have caught media attention, including movements such as Scientology, New Age, the Neopagans, the Sai Baba movement and Jihadist movements active in a post-9/11 context. An essential resource for students of religious studies, the history of religion, sociology, anthropology and the psychology of religion.
 

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The sociology of new religious
13
New religious movements and the evolving
29
Major controversies involving new religious
44
jAMEs T RICHARDSON
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History and the end of time in
63
Charismatic leaders in new religions
80
Rituals in new religions
97
Canonical and extracanonical texts in
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The Sathya Sai Baba movement
184
NeoSufism 1 9 8
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Satanism
215
I4 Theosophy
231
The New Age
247
ihadism as a new religious
263
I7 New religious movements in changing
286
New religious movements in subSaharan
303

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SABINA MAGLIOCCO
150
IO The International Raelian Movement
167

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Olav Hammer is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark. He is author of Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age (2001) and co-editor of Polemical Encounters: Esoteric Discourse and its Others (with Kocku von Stuckrad, 2007), The Invention of Sacred Tradition (with James R. Lewis, 2007) and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Tradition (with Mikael Rothstein, 2012).

Mikael Rothstein is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen and Visiting Professor at the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. He is author of Belief Transformations (1996), editor of New Age and Globalization (2001) and co-editor (with Tim Jensen) of Secular Theories in the Study of Religion (2000).

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