The Order of the Solar Temple (eBook, ePUB)

The Temple of Death
Redaktion: Lewis, James R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Québec were murdered or committed suicide. This incident and two later group suicides in subsequent years played a pivotal role in inflaming the cult controversy in Europe. Despite the importance of the Order of the Solar Temple, there are relatively few studies published in English. This book brings together the best scholarship on the Solar Temple including newly commissioned pieces from leading scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317022206
• Artikelnr.: 44815274

Autorenporträt

James R. Lewis is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, USA. He is a highly-published scholar of New Religions. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (2004), and also Controversial New Religions (co-edited with Jesper A. Petersen). In addition to writing a dozen other anthologies on new religions, James Lewis is the author of a textbook and a major encyclopedia in this field of study. His monographs include Legitimating New Religions (2003). He is a professional reference book author; his encyclopedias have won American Library Association, New York Public Library Association, and Choice book awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Templars for the age of Aquarius: the archedia clubs (1984-1991) and the international chivalric order of the solar tradition, Jean-François Mayer
'Ordeal by fire': the tragedy of the Solar Temple, Massimo Introvigne
Purity and danger in the Solar Temple, Susan J. Palmer
The mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple, John R. Hall and Philip Schuyler
The dangers of enlightenment: apocalyptic hopes and anxieties in the Order of the Solar Temple, Jean-François Mayer
Crises of charismatic authority and millenarian violence: the case of the Order of the Solar Temple, John Walliss
Sources of doctrine in the Solar Temple, George D. Chryssides
Death as initiation: Order of the Solar Temple and rituals of initiation, Henrik Bogdan
The Order du Temple Solaire and the quest for the absolute sun, Marc LaBelle
Sects, media and the end of the world, Roland J. Campiche
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.