Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader

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Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader is a comprehensive collection that explores the multifaceted world of new religious movements (NRMs). This reader offers diverse perspectives from historians, sociologists, psychologists of religion, and other scholars, providing accessible and well-researched essays which examine contemporary issues surrounding NRMs, including their history, social impact, and public debates.
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This reader is ideal for students and scholars of religion and spirituality, especially those interested in the academic study of new religious movements. It also suits lay readers seeking an informed, scholarly response to publicly debated issues about alternative religions.

What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion to address these key questions about new religious movements.

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Praised as a "superb collection" and an "indispensable" resource for courses on alternative religions, the book is recognised as a milestone in NRM studies by Nova Religio. It is described as a "valuable reader" that deserves widespread inclusion, commended for its clarity and accessibility to students, scholars, and lay readers alike, while providing excellent bibliographies for further study, according to the Marburg Journal of Religion.

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ISBN: 9781405101813

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2003

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

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Edited by Lorne L. Dawson

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 562g

Pages: 320

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Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Wiley Blackwell Readings in Religion

About the Author

Lorne L. Dawson is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious Movements (1998) and, Reason, Freedom and Religion (1988), and the editor of Cults in Context (1996).

Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader