Title:
The Oxford handbook of new religious movements. Volume II / edited by James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tøllefsen.
Author:
Lewis, James R., editor.
Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen, editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call Number:
BP603 .H36 2016
Abstract:
The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground. In this all-new volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tøllefsen bring together established and rising scholars to address an expanded range of topics, covering traditional religious studies topics, such as scripture, charisma, and ritual, while also applying new theoretical approaches to NRM topics. Other chapters cover understudied topics in the field, such as the developmental patterns of NRMs and subcultural considerations in the study of NRMs. The first part of this book examines NRMs from a social-scientific perspective, particularly that of sociology. In the second section, the primary factors that have put the study of NRMs on the map, controversy and conflict, are considered. The third section investigates common themes within the field of NRMs, while the fourth examines the approaches that religious studies researchers have taken to NRMs. As the field of NRM studies has grown, subfields such as Esotericism, New Ages studies, and neo-pagan studies have grown as distinct and individual areas of study, and the final section of the book investigates these emergent fields.
Electronic Access:
WorldCat Link
Edition:
Second Edition.
ISBN:
9780190466176
9780190466183
Series:
Oxford Handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xv, 526 pages ; 26 cm.
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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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