05306oam 2200829I 450 991082197630332120230617004115.01-135-88901-51-135-88902-31-299-28528-71-280-28905-897866102890590-203-50832-710.4324/9780203508329 (CKB)1000000000358576(EBL)182924(OCoLC)475897836(SSID)ssj0000377285(PQKBManifestationID)11272846(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377285(PQKBWorkID)10337906(PQKB)10138997(SSID)ssj0000304359(PQKBManifestationID)12115290(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304359(PQKBWorkID)10285325(PQKB)10539464(MiAaPQ)EBC182924(Au-PeEL)EBL182924(CaPaEBR)ebr10161570(CaONFJC)MIL28905(OCoLC)62866766(EXLCZ)99100000000035857620180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew religious movements in the twenty-first century legal, political, and social challenges in global perspective /edited by Phillip Charles Lucas and Thomas RobbinsNew York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (381 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-96576-4 0-415-96577-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction. Alternative religions, the state, and the globe / Thomas Robbins -- pt. 1. Western Europe. General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain / Eileen Barker -- Religious minorities and new religious movements in Denmark / Armin W. Geertz and Mikael Rothstein -- France's obsession with the "sectarian threat" / Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- The secte response to religious discrimination : subversives, martyrs, or freedom fighters in the French sect wars? / Susan J. Palmer -- Italy's surprisingly favorable environment for religious minorities / Massimo Introvigne -- New religions in Germany : the publicity of the public square / Brigitte Schoen -- pt. 2. Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New religions in the new Russia / Marat Shterin -- New religious minorities in the Baltic States / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova -- Crushing Wahhabi fundamentalists in Central Asia and the Caucasus : subplot to the global struggle against Al Qa'ida or suppression of legitimate religious opposition? / Brian Glyn Williams -- pt. 3. Africa, Asia, and Australia. Prophets, "false prophets," and the African state : emergent issues of religious freedom and conflict / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Religion on a leash : NRMs and the limits of Chinese freedom / Scott Lowe -- Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shift and moral panic in the post-Aum era / Ian Reader -- New religions in Australia : public menace or societal salvation? / James T. Richardson --pt. 4. North and South Americas. The mainstreaming of alternative spirituality in Brazil / Robert T. Carpenter -- The fate of NRMs and their detractors in twenty-first century America / J. Gordon Melton -- New religions and the anticult movement in Canada / Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe -- pt. 5. Theoretical considerations. New religious movements and globalization / James A. Beckford -- Apocalypse 9/11 / John R. Hall -- Establishments and sects in the Islamic world / Mark Sedgwick -- Research on new religious movements in the post-9/11 world / Benjamin Zablocki and J. Anna Looney --Cults, porn, and hate : convergent discourses on First Amendment restriction / Thomas Robbin and Dick Anthony -- Conclusion. The future of new and minority religions in the twenty-first century : religious freedom under global siege / Philip Charles Lucas.New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first centurCultsSectsReligion and lawReligion and stateReligion and sociologyReligionsCults.Sects.Religion and law.Religion and state.Religion and sociology.Religions.200/.9/05111.05bclLucas Phillip Charles1620492Robbins Thomas1943-841910MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821976303321New religious movements in the twenty-first century3953296UNINA