New Religions and New Religiosity
En del af serien RENNER Studies on New Religions (4) , og fagområdet Religion
Udsolgt fra forlaget
Redigeret af
Eileen Barker og
Margit Warburg
Med bidrag af
Eileen Barker,
Martin Bauman,
Valerie DeMarinis,
Tadeusz Doktór,
Harri Heino,
Danièle Hervieu-Léger,
Nils G. Holm,
Massimo Introvigne,
J. Gordon Melton,
Malorie Nye,
David Piff,
Ole Skjerbæk Madsen,
Margareta Skog,
Merethe Sundby-Sørensen og
Margit Warburg
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Om bogen
En række artikler om det voksende antal religiøse organisationer i Europa og USA. Blandt de emner som tages op er: Nyreliøsitet i Østeuropa, Scientology, Baha'i, Teosofi, juridiske rettigheder og restriktioner for nyreligiøse organisationer i USA og Danmark.
Indholdsfortegnelse
Part I: The Wider Context:
1. New Religions and New Religiosity, Eileen Barker
2. Secularization, Tradition and New Forms of Religiosity: Some
Theoretical Proposals, Danièle Hervieu-Léger
3. The Emergence of New Religions in Eastern Europe Since 1989, J.
Gordon Melton
Part II: Case Studies:
4. Enemies of the Faith: Rumours and Anecdotes as Self-definition
and Social Control in the Baha'i Religion, David Piff and Margit
Warburg
5. Buddhism in Poland, Tadeusz Doktór
6. The Indian Factor in New Religious Movements: A
Religio-Psychological Perspective, Nils G. Holm
7. Religious Ritual-Hunger and the Quest for Religious
Ritual-Sustenance: A Psycho-Cultural Investigation of New Age
Participants in Berkeley, California, Valerie DeMarinis
8. The Future of the New Age Movement, J. Gordon Melton
9. Is the Charismatic movement a 'Catholic Fundamentalism'?,
Danièle Hervieu-Léger
10. Danish Members' Perceptions of the Founder of the Church of
Scientology, Merethe Sundby-Sørensen
11. The Faith Movement in Sweden: Some Data, Margareta Skog
12. What Does the Finnish Freemason Believe In?, Harri Heino
13. The Maitreya-Theosophy of Asger Lorentsen and the
Shan-Movement, Ole Skjerbæk Madsen
Part III: Societal Reactions:
14. Channelling Information: The Stigmatization of Religious
Studies as an Aspect of the Debate about the New Religious
Movements in Germany, Martin Baumann
15. Hindus Old and New: Problems of Sacred Space in Britain,
Malory Nye
16. Christian New Religious Movements: A Roman Catholic
Perspective, Massimo Introvigne
17. Restrictions and Privileges: Legal and Administrative Practice
and Minority Religions in the USA and Denmark, Margit Warburg
18. New Religious Movements and the Law: A Comparison between Two
Different Legal Systems - The United States and Italy, Massimo
Introvigne
Contributors
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Pressen skrev
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