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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456041203321

Autore

Lewis James R

Titolo

Legitimating new religions [[electronic resource] /] / James R. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8135-5722-4

0-8135-3534-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

200/.9/04

Soggetti

Cults - Psychology

Psychology, Religious

Authority - Religious aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.