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Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths (Paperback)
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Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
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New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have
regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent
decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of
the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they
function by using specific legal cases to examine social control
efforts. The legal cases involve group leaders, a groups' practices
or alleged abuses against members and children in the group, legal
actions brought by former members or third parties, attacks against
such groups by outsiders including even governments, and libel and
slander actions brought by religious groups as they seek to defend
themselves. These cases are sometimes milestones in the relation
between state authorities and religious groups. Exploring cases in
different parts of the world, and assessing the events causing such
cases and their consequences, this book offers a practical insight
for understanding the relations of NRMs and other minority
religions and the law from the perspective of legal cases. Chapters
focus on legal, political, and social implications. Including
contributions from scholars, legal practitioners, actual or former
members, and authorities involved in such cases from various
jurisdictions, this book presents an objective approach to
understanding why so many legal actions have involved NRMs and
other minority faiths in recent years in western societies, and the
consequences of those actions for the society and the religious
group as well.
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