New Religious Movements In The Twenty First Century

Author : Phillip Charles Lucas
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415965764
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century written by Phillip Charles Lucas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mary Pat Fisher
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415211666
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Twenty-first Century written by Mary Pat Fisher and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey considers the global religious situation at the approach of the new millennium. It provides an introduction to a variety of new religious movements, and examines the role of the Interfaith Movement as well as the use of modern technology.

Author : Benjamin E. Zeller
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797210
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets and Protons written by Benjamin E. Zeller and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the twentieth century, science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions’ understandings of science. The Hare Krishnas, the Unification Church, and Heaven’s Gate each found distinct ways to incorporate major findings of modern American science, understanding it as central to their wider theological and social agendas. In tracing the development of these new religious movements’ viewpoints on science during each movement’s founding period, we can discern how their views on science were crafted over time. These NRMs shed light on how religious groups—new, old, alternative, or mainstream—could respond to the tremendous growth of power and prestige of science in late twentieth-century America. In this engrossing book, Zeller carefully shows that religious groups had several methods of creatively responding to science, and that the often-assumed conflict-based model of “science vs. religion” must be replaced by a more nuanced understanding of how religions operate in our modern scientific world.

Author : Eric Kaufmann
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651941
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? written by Eric Kaufmann and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists. And what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share of the population: in fact, the more religious people are, the more children they have. The cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the West. Not only will the religious eventually triumph over the non-religious, but it is those who are the most extreme in their beliefs who have the largest families. Within Judaism, the Ultra-Orthodox may achieve majority status over their liberal counterparts by mid-century. Islamist Muslims have won the culture war in much of the Muslim world, and their success provides a glimpse of what awaits the Christian West and Israel. Based on a wealth of demographic research, considering questions of multiculturalism and terrorism, Kaufmann examines the implications of the decline in liberal secularism as religious conservatism rises - and what this means for the future of western modernity.

Author : Olav Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196507
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements written by Olav Hammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.

Author : Phillip Charles Lucas
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415965767
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century written by Phillip Charles Lucas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mary Pat Fisher
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Twenty-first Century written by Mary Pat Fisher and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and informative survey of the global religious situation as we enter the new millennium. Through a thematic and people-oriented approach, this book provides a valuable introduction to a variety of new religious movements -- whether founded as offshoots of traditional religions or as a result of the Interfaith Movement and the ways in which modern technology is spreading religions both new and old.

Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Religions written by Peter W. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a review in the Journal of Religion, the famed Martin Marty characterized Peter Williams as "a productive wonder" and Americas Religions: Traditions and Cultures as "a rich resource for readers who would like a state of the art comment on the abundant religious phenomena which surround them". Writing in Religion and American Culture, Stephen J. Stein said the book is "not a story of religion in isolation from the rest of American life", but a work that has as a major emphasis the theme of Americanization, of the symbiotic relationship between religions and cultures. Williamss book widely considered the best of its kind, is a comprehensive introduction to the religious history of the United States and the traditions out of which it arose, from colonial times through the late twentieth century. Now including an updated bibliography, it presents descriptions of major religious traditions and introduces distinctive American innovations. Included are not only Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, but African American, Native American, and Asian American traditions. The peace churches, "liberal" churches, and Mormonism also are discussed.

Author : Emily Suzanne Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350063991
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and New Religious Movements in the USA written by Emily Suzanne Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement, this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more. The voices included come from both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a different new religious movement and features: - an introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding - two to four primary source documents about or from the movement - suggestions for further reading.

Author : Claire Mason
Publisher : NA-r
ISBN 13 : 9780739860328
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Religious Movements written by Claire Mason and published by NA-r. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a brief introduction to new religious movements, discussing why people join them, what effects they have on individual members, their families, and society as a whole, and how governments reconcile the principle of religious freedom with their duty to protect the public from potential harm.