'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective (eBook, ePUB)

New and Minority Religions
Redaktion: Gallagher, Eugene V.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, exploring developments in some well-known groups such as the Unification movement, The Family International (Children of God), the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and the Church of Scientology. Bringing together both insiders and outsiders from various academic disciplines and personal perspectives, this book takes account of the ways in which the cult question is defined and addressed in different countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317156666
• Artikelnr.: 45435172

Autorenporträt

Eugene V. Gallagher is the Rosemary Park Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. He is the author of Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements, The New Religious Movements Experience in America, co-author of Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America, co-editor of the five-volume Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in the United States and author of many essays on new religious movements and religions in the ancient Mediterranean world. He is a co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Alternative Religions and associate editor of Teaching Theology and Religion.