Lorne Dawson

Cults in Context (eBook, PDF)

Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351524650
• Artikelnr.: 54143597

Autorenporträt

Lorne Dawson

Inhaltsangabe

A: The Nature and Study of Cults
One: The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must Be Joking!
Two: Definitions of Cult: From Sociological-Technical to Popular-Negative
Three: Three Types of New Religious Movements
B: The Historical and Sociological Context of Cults
Four: A Time when Mountains were Moving
Five: The New Religions: Demodernization and the Protest Against Modernity
Six: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation
C: Who Joins New Religious Movements and Why?
Seven: The Role of Deprivation in the Origin and Evolution of Religious Groups
Eight: On Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective
Nine: The Joiners
D: The Coercive Conversion Controversy
Ten: The Seduction Syndrome
Eleven: A Critique of "Brainwashing" Claims About New Religious Movements
Twelve: Clinical and Personality Assessment of Participants in New Religions
E: The Satanism Scare
Thirteen: The Construction of Satanism as a Social Problem in Canada
Fourteen: Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism
Fifteen: Teenage Satanism as Oppositional Youth Subculture
F: Violence and New Religious Movements
Sixteen: Sects and Violence: Factors Enhancing the Volatility of Marginal Religious Movements
Seventeen: The Apocalypse at Jonestown
Eighteen: Cult Extremism: The Reduction of Normative Dissonance
G: The Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements
Nineteen: Women's 'Cocoon Work' in New Religious Movements: Sexual Experimentation and Feminine Rites of Passage
Twenty: The New Age Movement and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival: Distinct Yet Parallel Phases of a Fourth Great Awakening?
Twenty-One: Cultural Consequences of Cults
Appendix: Cults and the Internet
Twenty-Two: NRMS, the ACM, and the WWW: A Guide for Beginners