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Autore: | Chryssides George D. <1945-> |
Titolo: | Exploring new religions / / George D. Chryssides |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Cassell, 1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina: | 291.046 |
Soggetto topico: | Religions |
Cults | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Methodological issues; 2. The 'suicide cults'; 3. The old new religions; 4. The 'New Christian' movements; 5. New religions in the Hindu tradition; 6. New forms of Buddhism; 7. Independent new religions; 8. The Human Potential Movement; 9. New Age, witchcraft and Paganism; 10. The counter-cult movement; Appendix 1: Statistical data; Appendix 2: Compendium; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | An objective, well-researched history of contemporary new religions and cults.New religious movements - popularly known as cults - arouse strong public opinion and most books on the subject are polemical, giving hostile reaction rather than informed exploration. Exploring New Religions provides an account of a wide variety of new religions, focusing on their origins, beliefs and practices, which are set out in a dispassionate way, leaving readers to form their own value judgements. George Chryssides provides important analysis of the killer cults-the Jonestown People's Temple, Waco, the Solar |
Titolo autorizzato: | Exploring new religions |
ISBN: | 9786611783945 |
1-281-78394-3 | |
0-8264-3890-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807764803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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