New religious movements - popularly know as 'cults'- arouse strong
public opinion and most books on the subject are polemical, giving
hostile reaction rather than informed exploration. Exploring New
Religions provides an account of a wide variety of new religions,
focusing on their origins, beliefs and practices, which are set out
in a compelling but dispassionate way, leaving readers to form
their own judgements. Chryssides provides important analysis of the
'killer cults' - the Jonestown Peoples Temple, Waco, the Solar
Temple and Heaven's Gate - and examines the factors that made their
followers willing to die for their cause. Older groups like
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) are
discussed, and the author traces the development of a variety of
strands of spirituality, ranging from New Thought to
Transcendentalism and Theosophy. Subsequent chapters include: the
Baha'i, The Family (formerly Children of God), the Hare Krishna
Movement (ISKCON), The jesus Army, the Rastafarians, the Church of
Scientology , Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Unification
Church ('the Moonies').Some less well-known groups are also
featured: est (Erhard Seminar Training), the new Kadampa Tradition,
Brahma Kumaris, Sai Baba, Subud and the Western Buddhist Order.
Also included is a study of the New Age phenomenon, and an account
of responses to new religions, at religious, societal and political
levels. This is an important new study of new religious movements,
which should prove invaluable to scholars,students and clergy as
well ak to those whose lives have been affected by new religions.
George D. Chryssides is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the
University of Wolverhampton. He has had many years of direct
acquaintance with new religions, and has written extensively on the
subject. His definitive work on the Unification Church, The Advent
of Sun Myung Moon, was published in 1991.
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