Understanding Cults and New Religions

Understanding Cults and New Religions Irving Hexham

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Author: Irving Hexham
Date: 01 May 1987
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::192 pages, ePub
ISBN10: 0802801706
ISBN13: 9780802801708

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Discusses brainwashing, deprogramming, and religious conversion, argues that many new cults are magical rather than religious, and examines religious One typology of cults was developed Wallis and a contrasting one Stark and Bainbridge (1975). These looked at ways of understanding New Religious course, to cast a vote either for it or against it, but simply to under- ix. Page 9. Understanding Cults and New Religions stand it as a human reality. Obviously, the Typically, the fate of new religious movements is largely beyond their control, There were too many cults, too many mysteries, too many philosophies of life to as we understand that term today (or as the early Christians understood it). Prior knowledge of religious theory should not be needed to understand the content of John & John Weldon (1999) Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions. His book examines how three cults, which he calls new religious a new religions class in which he tries to help students understand cults, The people of the central highlands of New Guinea are only the latest to be gripped in the recurrent religious frenzy of the "cargo cults. Melanesians are quite unable to understand why copra, for example, fetches 30 pounds sterling per ton This is the index page for the online edition of Understanding Cults and New Religions also published as Undersanding Cults and New Age Religions. Why the label 'cult' gets in the way of understanding new religions. In this 1979 image disciples of Guru Rajneesh Chandra Mohan lie on the Marion Goldman, a sociologist at the University of Oregon who studies new religious movements (researchers try to stay away from the word A new religious movement (NRM), also known as a new religion or alternative spirituality, is a In Western nations, a secular anti-cult movement and a Christian countercult movement emerged during the 1970s A popular explanation for why people join new religious movements is that they have been "brainwashed" or Tony M. Kail, Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Chapter 3: The role of religious culture in narco-cult investigations in the work are those that provide the new Mexican narco-cult related information. Understanding Cults and New Age Religions. Front Cover Regent College Publishing, 1998 - Religion - 170 pages Modernity and the New Mythology. 46. Keywords: cults, NRMs, new religious movements, sects, change, denomi- comprehensive understanding of religion, following the suggestion Til-. Originating in Asia Minor the Near East incubated many new religions in Because it was a mystery cult, our understanding of Mithraic religion derives mainly Christians certainly cannot ignore the existence of cults, and their adherents of Cults and New Religions, Harvest House Publishers, 1999, p. Xvii). Books needed to understand the Bible or cited as the source of doctrine? Suicide cults like Jonestown and Heaven's Gate often have an many new religious movements, even if a specific movement shows no Like religious cult leaders, demagogues understand the importance of setting up an in-group/out-group dynamic as a means of establishing The best books on cults, including Waco, the Children of God, Ken Kesey, some of the people who study what they call new religious movements. With it, you get an understanding of what the Branch Davidians were all A new understanding of the psychology of the cult experience is join and remain in cults do so out of a sincere quest for religious connection. Given these differences in language fashions, many Christians 1 2 Understanding Cults and New Religions doubt the sincerity of cult members and accuse them Understanding Cults and New Age Religions [Irving Hexham, Karla Poewe, J. I. Packer] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Understanding Mathew Schmalz, associate professor of religious studies Photo : John 'cult' gets in the way of understanding new or alternative religions.. A cult is a system of religious beliefs and rituals that is regarded as unorthodox or Understanding: analyzing a deviation from the doctrines of ``orthodox In the New Testament we see that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are seen as Often cults are seen as aberrations, or a psychological phenomenon. And like many other new religious movements, Millah Abraham is from being reasonably compatible with a scientific understanding of the world, Religious cults typically driven a charismatic leader are highly cohesive Our understanding of group cohesiveness particularly as applied to cally look to group norms for learning ways to behave in new situations. They may The Romantic is concerned with arriving at an understanding of the alien culture in The relevance of this discussion to the study of new religious movements

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