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The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements (Hardcover, New)
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The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion
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New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious
landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader
or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious
movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate
unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been
perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years
come to be treated in the same way as established religions, that
is, as complex cultural phenomena involving myths, rituals and
canonical texts. This Companion discusses key features of NRMs from
a systematic, comparative perspective, summarizing results of forty
years of research. The volume addresses NRMs that have caught media
attention, including movements such as Scientology, New Age, the
Neopagans, the Sai Baba movement and Jihadist movements active in a
post-9/11 context. An essential resource for students of religious
studies, the history of religion, sociology, anthropology and the
psychology of religion.
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