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The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life (Paperback)
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The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion
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This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new
religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the
West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions
which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the
movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna
Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the
Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some
became international, others remained local; in other ways, too,
such as style, belief, organisation, they exhibit enormous
diversity. The movements studied here are classified under three
ideal types, world-rejecting, world-affirming and
world-accommodating, and from here the author develops a theory of
the origins, recruitment base, characteristics, and development
patterns which they display. The book offers a critical exploration
of the theories of the new religions and analyses the highly
contentious issue of whether they reflect the process of
secularisation, or whether they are a countervailing trend marking
the resurgence of religion in the West.
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