Record Nr.

UNINA9910817512303321

Titolo

Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-280-24124-1

0-203-29943-4

0-203-28907-2

1-134-39203-6

1-134-39204-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Classificazione

11.01

Altri autori (Persone)

BarkerEileen <1938->

BeckfordJames A

RichardsonJames T. <1941->

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Religion and sociology

Cults

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.

"A selection of Eileen Barker's principal publications in English": p. [229]-236.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- ; PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson -- Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-Francois Mayer -- Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg -- Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin -- ; PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins -- Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne -- Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine -- Countercult monitoring movement in historical

perspective / J. Gordon Melton -- Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill -- PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie -- Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire -- Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark -- ; PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS -- Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann -- Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies -- Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn.

Sommario/riassunto

In the last half century new religious movements or cults of one sort and another have mushroomed throughout the US and Europe. Increasingly these groups have been met with attempts to monitor and control them on the part of the state, and concerns about the protection of religious 'consumers' have been set against the democratic right to religious freedom. In this collection, leading sociologists of religion from the UK, US, Western and Eastern Europe debate the political, practical and ethical issues which arise from these changes in the religious landscape.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00124250

Titolo

Algorithmic and Geometric Topics Around Free Groups and Automorphisms / Javier Aramayona ... [et al.] ; Juan González-Meneses, Martin Lustig, Enric Ventura editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cham, : Birkhäuser, 2017

Titolo uniforme

Algorithmic and Geometric Topics Around Free Groups and Automorphisms

Descrizione fisica

IX, 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

20Exx - Structure and classification of infinite or finite groups [MSC 2020]

20F67 - Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups [MSC 2020]