Cults and New Religions

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A Brief History

By Douglas E. Cowan and David G. Bromley

Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

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Cults and New Religions provides a comprehensive exploration of new religious movements (NRMs), offering detailed profiles of significant and controversial groups. Each chapter delves into the origins, beliefs, rituals, leadership, and organisational structures of these movements, while addressing the major controversies they have stirred. The book also discusses debates on what defines an authentic religion, brainwashing claims, unconventional sexual practices, and societal fears surrounding cults. Newly added sections introduce research methods and highlight emerging groups to observe.
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This edition is ideal for students, scholars, and readers interested in contemporary religion, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as anyone seeking a balanced and thorough introduction to cults and new religious movements.

This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies surrounding each group.

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This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely updated and expanded to reflect the latest developments. Each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals, and practices of a new religious movement (NRM), highlighting the specific controversies surrounding each group.

Cults and New Religions is a fully updated, revised, and expanded edition of an unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements. It profiles a number of the most visible, significant, and controversial new religious movements, presenting each group’s history, doctrines, rituals, leadership, and organization.

Additionally, the book offers a discussion of the major controversies in which new religious movements have been involved, using each profiled group to illustrate the nature of one of those controversies. It covers debates including what constitutes an authentic religion, the validity of claims of brainwashing techniques, the implications of experimentation with unconventional sexual practices, and the deeply rooted cultural fears that cults engender.

New sections in this edition include methods of studying new religions in each chapter, as well as presentations on ‘groups to watch’.

Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118722107

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 June 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 256

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David G. Bromley Douglas E. Cowan Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

About the Author

Douglas E. Cowan is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies at Renison University College, at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Cults and New Religious Movements: A Brief History, Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet (2005), Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult(2003) Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen (2008) and Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television (2010). David G. Bromley is Director of the World Religions and Spirituality Project and Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. His most recent publications include Defining Religion: Critical Approaches to Drawing Boundaries Between Sacred and Secular (2003) and Cults, Religion and Violence (2001).

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