LEADER 05475nam 2201009 450 001 9910798086803321 005 20230807221515.0 010 $a0-520-96212-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520962125 035 $a(CKB)3710000000461310 035 $a(EBL)2025592 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001531042 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12537183 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001531042 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11532476 035 $a(PQKB)10067735 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2025592 035 $a(DE-B1597)520580 035 $a(OCoLC)918145569 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520962125 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2025592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11089839 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL821783 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000461310 100 $a20150818h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew age, neopagan, and new religious movements$b[electronic resource] $ealternative spirituality in contemporary America /$fHugh B. Urban 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-28118-7 311 0 $a0-520-28117-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tOne. Introduction: The Rise of New Religions in Modern America --$tTwo. The Native American Church: Ancient Tradition in a Modern Legal Context --$tThree. Mormonism and Plural Marriage: The LDS and the FLDS --$tFour. Spiritualism: Women, Mediums, and Messages from Other Worlds --$tFive. The Nation of Islam and the Five Percenters: Race, Religion, and Hip-Hop --$tSix. Rastafari: Messianism, Music, and Ganja --$tSeven. The Church of Scientology: New Religions and Tax Exemption --$tEight. Wicca and Neopaganism: Magic, Feminism, and Environmentalism --$tNine. The Church of Satan and the Temple of Set: Religious Parody and Satanic Panic --$tTen. ISKCON (Hare Krishna): Eastern Religions in America and the "Brainwashing" Debate --$tEleven. Channeling and the New Age: Alternative Spirituality in Popular Culture and Media --$tTwelve. Peoples Temple: Mass Murder-Suicide, the Media, and The "Cult" Label --$tThirteen. The Branch Davidians: Millenarian Movements, Religious Freedom, and Privacy --$tFourteen. The Raëlians: UFOS and Human Cloning --$tAppendix. Method and Theory in the Study of New Religions --$tIndex 330 $aNew Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Branch Davidians. This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning. Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a particular faith group, providing readers with examples that illustrate larger issues in the study of religion and American culture. Urban addresses such questions as, Why has there been such a tremendous proliferation of new spiritual forms in the past 150 years, even as our society has become increasingly rational, scientific, technological, and secular? Why has the United States become the heartland for the explosion of new religious movements? How do we deal with complex legal debates, such as the use of peyote by the Native American Church or the practice of plural marriage by some Mormon communities? And how do we navigate issues of religious freedom and privacy in an age of religious violence, terrorism, and government surveillance? 606 $aCults$zUnited States 606 $aSects$zUnited States 606 $aOccultism$zUnited States 610 $aamerican culture. 610 $aamerican religions. 610 $aamerican spirituality. 610 $acomparative religion. 610 $acult leaders. 610 $acults and religions. 610 $acults. 610 $aemerging religions. 610 $aflds. 610 $aislam. 610 $alatter day saints. 610 $alds. 610 $amormon fundamentalists. 610 $amormonism. 610 $anative american church. 610 $aneopagan movements. 610 $aneopagan. 610 $anew age movements. 610 $anew age. 610 $anew american religions. 610 $anew religions. 610 $anew religious movements. 610 $anew spiritual movements. 610 $anew theology. 610 $aoccultism. 610 $arastafari. 610 $areligious freedom. 610 $areligious studies. 610 $ascientology. 610 $aseparation of church and state. 610 $awicca. 610 $aworld religions. 615 0$aCults 615 0$aSects 615 0$aOccultism 676 $a299/.930973 700 $aUrban$b Hugh B.$01472765 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798086803321 996 $aNew age, neopagan, and new religious movements$93685666 997 $aUNINA