| Description |
xiii, 267 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index. |
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"A selection of Eileen Barker's principal publications in English": p. [229]-236. |
| Contents |
Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson -- Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-Francois Mayer -- Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg -- Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin -- PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins -- Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne -- Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine -- Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton -- Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill -- PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie -- Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire -- Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark -- PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS -- Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann -- Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies -- Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Religion and sociology.
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Cults.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Barker, Eileen, 1938-
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Beckford, James A.
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Richardson, James T., 1941-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0415309484 (alk. paper) |
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