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Controversial new religions /

Controversial new religions / edited by James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen. - 2nd Edition. - xii, 480 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction / James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen -- A family for the twenty-first century / James Chancellor -- The Unification Church / Sarah M. Lewis -- The controversies about Peoples Temple and Jonestown / Rebecca Moore -- The Branch Davidians / Eugene V. Gallagher -- Charismatic controversies in the Jesus People, Calvary Chapel, and Vineyard movements / Jane Skjoldli -- Kabbalah Centre: marketing and meaning / Jody Myers -- Controversial Afro-American Muslim organizations / Goran Larsson -- The earth school: the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness / James R. Lewis -- Contested genealogies and cross-cultural dynamics in the Hare Krishna movement / Malcolm Haddon -- Transcendental Meditation, the Art of Living Foundtaion, and public relations: from psychedelic romanticism to science and schism / Inga B. Tllefsen -- Controversy, cultural influence, and the Osho/Rajneesh movement / Marion S. Goldman -- Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum incident: a critical introduction / Martin Repp -- Falun Gong: a narrative of pending apocalypse, shape-shifting aliens, and relentless persecution / Helen Farley -- Scientology: the making of a religion / Kjersti Hellesy -- The Church Universal and Triumphant: controversy, change, and continuance / Jocelyn H. Dehaas -- The Order of the Solar Temple / Henrik Bogdan -- New Age spiritualities / Siv Ellen Kraft -- Contemporary Paganism / Manon Hedenborg-White -- Popularity of--and controversy in--contemporary shamanism / Anne Kalvig -- "Come on up, and I will show thee": Heaven's Gate as a postmodern group / George D. Chryssides -- "Those who came from the sky": ancient astronauts and creationism in the Raelian religion / Erik A.W. Ostling -- Wolf age pagans / Mattias Gardell -- Carnal, chthonian, complicated: the matter of modern Satanism / Jesper Aa. Petersen.

9780199315314

2013049363


Cults.

BP603 / .C66 2014

200.9/04

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