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The Demise of Religion - How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate (Paperback)
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The Demise of Religion - How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate (Paperback)
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Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach,
this open access book explores this important question that has
received little scholarly attention to date. International
contributors provide case studies from the United States, England,
Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that
explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation,
death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances
where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution;
the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch
pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of
the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the
disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in
Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018
after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and
theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions
End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves
the way for future research The eBook editions of this book are
available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre
for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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