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There is a huge and ever-growing interest in New Religious Movements (NRMs), sects and cults, from Aum Shinrykyo to Waco to Falun Gong. This collection provides the historical and cultural contexts within which to view current trends.
Sects, Cults and New Religions, 1st Edition
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1584 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2013
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Summary
New Religious Movements (NRMs) came into being as a distinct subfield of academic study in the 1970s in response to the explosion of non-traditional religions that took place in the waning years of the Sixties counterculture. (The designation ‘New Religion’ is a direct translation of a Japanese term coined for the many new religions that emerged in the wake of the Second World War, and was adopted by Western scholars in the late Sixties/early Seventies in preference to the pejorative term ‘cu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780415320290 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0415320291 |
| Series: | Critical Concepts in Sociology |
| Author: | Carole Cusack, Danielle Kirby |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1584 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 3.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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