Controversial New Religions 1st Edition by James Lewis, Jesper Aagaard Petersen ISBN 978-0195156836 0195156836

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ISBN 10:  0195156836

ISBN 13:  978-0195156836

Author: James R. Lewis, Jesper Aagaard Petersen
This book complements Lewis’s O xford Handbook of New Religious Movements. The former provides an overview of the state of the field. This volume collects papers on those specific New Religious Movements (NRMs) that have generated the most scholarly attention. With few exceptions, these organizations are also the controversial groups that have attracted the attention of the mass media, often because they have been involved in, or accused of, violent or anti-social activities. Among the movements to be profiled are such groups as the Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, Solar Temple, Scientology, Falun Gong and many more. The book will function as a reference for scholars, as a text for courses in NRMs, and will also appeal to non-specialists including reporters, law enforcement, public policy makers, and others.

Table of contents: 

Groups in the Christian Tradition

• A Family for the Twenty-First Century

• Spirit Revelation and the Unification Church

• Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories about Jonestown

• Explaining Militarization at Waco: The Construction and Convergence of the Warfare Narrative

Asian and Asian-Inspired Groups

• Family Development and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement

• When Leaders Dissolve: Considering Controversy and Stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh Movement

• Soka Gakkai: Searching for the Mainstream

• Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident: A Critical Introduction

• The Falun Gong: A New Religious Movement in Post-Mao China

• Notes on the Aumist Religion

Esoteric and New Age Groups

• Inventing L. Ron Hubbard: On the Construction and Maintenance of the Hagiographic Mythology of Scientology’s Founder

• The Theosophical Society

• The Solar Temple: Transits Beyond the Millennialist Hypothesis

• From Atlantis to America: JZ Knight Encounters Ramtha

• Heart and Soul: A Qualitative Look at the Ethos of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness

Other Groups and Movements

• Come On Up and I Will Show Thee: Heavens Gate as a Postmodern Group

• The Raelian Movement: Concocting Controversy, Seeking Social Legitimacy

• White Racist Religions in the United States: From Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans

• Modern Satanism: Dark Doctrines and Black Flames

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