In the mid 1950s, a British taxi driver named George King claimed
that Budha, Jesus, and Lao Tzu had been alien "cosmic masters" who
had come to earth to teach mankind the right way to live. Sun Myung
Moon claimed that Korean people are descendants of the lost tribes
of Israel. Joseph Smith claimed that some lost tribes of Israel had
moved to Americas hundreds of years ago. All three people
successfully founded new religious movements that have survived to
this day. How and why do some people come up with such seemingly
strange and bizarre ideas and why do others come to place their
faith in these ideas? The first part of this book develops a
multidisciplinary theoretical framework drawn from cognitive
science of religion and social psychology to answer these
critically important questions. The second part of the book
illustrates how this theoretical framework can be used to
understand the origin and evolution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at
founded by an Indian Muslim in 1889. The book breaks new ground by
studying the influence that religious beliefs of 19th century
reformist Indian Muslims, in particular, founders of the
Ahl-e-Hadith movement, had on the beliefs of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad,
the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at. Using the theoretical
framework developed in part I, the book also explains why many
north Indian Sunni Muslims found Ahmad's ideas to be irresistible
and why the movement split into two a few years Ahmad's death. The
book will interest those who want to understand cults as well as
those who want to understand reformist Islamic movements.
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