LEADER 04044nam 22005534a 450 001 9910784683703321 005 20230617041013.0 010 $a1-280-24124-1 010 $a0-203-29943-4 010 $a0-203-28907-2 010 $a1-134-39203-6 010 $a1-134-39204-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000360209 035 $a(EBL)182551 035 $a(OCoLC)475896402 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182551 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10166561 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL24124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182551 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000360209 100 $a20021209d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 00$aChallenging religion$b[electronic resource] $eessays in honour of Eileen Barker /$fedited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-88004-3 311 $a0-415-30948-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index. 320 $a"A selection of Eileen Barker's principal publications in English": p. [229]-236. 327 $tIntroduction /$rJames A. Beckford,$rJames T. Richardson --$gPART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS --$tAbsolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements /$rBryan R. Wilson --$tCults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third /$rN.J. Demerath III --$tReligion and the Internet: the global marketplace /$rJean-Franc?ois Mayer --$tReligious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective /$rMargit Warburg --$tReligion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat /$rMarat Shterin --$gPART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL --$tNotes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom /$rThomas Robbins --$tChapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy /$rMassimo Introvigne --$tSatanic abuse: lessons from a controversy /$rJean La Fontaine --$tCountercult monitoring movement in historical perspective /$rJ. Gordon Melton --$tMaking of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore /$rMichael Hill --$tPART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT --$tWhat's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? /$rPhillip E. Hammond --$tReligious toleration in Western and Central European countries /$rKarel Dobbelaere,$rJaak Billiet --$tReligious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective /$rGrace Davie --$tGendered spiritualities /$rMeredith B. McGuire --$tMaking of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse /$rNancy Nason-Clark --$gPART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS --$tAspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality /$rThomas Luckmann --$tSociology of wisdom /$rDouglas Davies --$tCataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination /$rRichard K. Fenn. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aCults 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aCults. 676 $a306.6 686 $a11.01$2bcl 701 $aBarker$b Eileen$f1938-$0143700 701 $aBeckford$b James A$0125807 701 $aRichardson$b James T.$f1941-$01540299 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784683703321 996 $aChallenging religion$93791851 997 $aUNINA