LEADER 03736nam 22004935 450 001 996309083103316 005 20210111192614.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110556643 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283632 035 $a(DE-B1597)486885 035 $a(OCoLC)1004872677 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110556643 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5494967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5494967 035 $a(OCoLC)1088352323 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283632 100 $a20190615d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModerate Fundamentalists $eAhmadiyya Muslim Jama'at in the Lens of Cognitive Science of Religion /$fMuhammad Afzal Upal 210 1$aWarsaw ;$aBerlin : $cDe Gruyter Open Poland, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a3-11-055648-0 311 $a3-11-055664-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgement -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 Tribal Gods: My God Is Better than Yours -- $t3 Social Identity Change Entrepreneurs -- $t4 Attraction of the New -- $t5 Social Counterintuiveness -- $t6 Shared Beliefs of Northwestern Indian Muslims -- $t7 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad -- $t8 Ratcheting Up of Counterintuitiveness in Ahmadiyya Doctrine -- $t9 Conclusion -- $tEndnotes -- $tGlossary of Arabic/Urdu Terms -- $tBibliography -- $tSubject Index -- $tPerson Index -- $tGeographic Index 330 $aIn the mid 1950s, a British taxi driver named George King claimed that Budha, Jesus, and Lao Tzu had been alien "cosmic masters" who had come to earth to teach mankind the right way to live. Sun Myung Moon claimed that Korean people are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Joseph Smith claimed that some lost tribes of Israel had moved to Americas hundreds of years ago. All three people successfully founded new religious movements that have survived to this day. How and why do some people come up with such seemingly strange and bizarre ideas and why do others come to place their faith in these ideas? The first part of this book develops a multidisciplinary theoretical framework drawn from cognitive science of religion and social psychology to answer these critically important questions. The second part of the book illustrates how this theoretical framework can be used to understand the origin and evolution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at founded by an Indian Muslim in 1889. The book breaks new ground by studying the influence that religious beliefs of 19th century reformist Indian Muslims, in particular, founders of the Ahl-e-Hadith movement, had on the beliefs of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at. Using the theoretical framework developed in part I, the book also explains why many north Indian Sunni Muslims found Ahmad's ideas to be irresistible and why the movement split into two a few years Ahmad's death. The book will interest those who want to understand cults as well as those who want to understand reformist Islamic movements. 606 $aCognitive Science of Religion, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, New Religious Movements 606 $aRELIGION / Islam / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aCognitive Science of Religion, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, New Religious Movements. 615 4$aCognitive Science of Religion, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, New Religious Movements. 615 7$aRELIGION / Islam / General. 676 $a200.19 700 $aUpal$b Muhammad Afzal, $0978193 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996309083103316 996 $aModerate Fundamentalists$92229168 997 $aUNISA