The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (eBook, PDF)

Volume II
Redaktion: Lewis, James R.; Tollefsen, Inga B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground. In this all-new volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. T?llefsen bring together established and rising scholars to address an expanded range of topics, covering traditional religious studies topics such as "scripture," "charisma," and "ritual," while also applying new theoretical approaches to NRM topics. Other chapters cover understudied topics in the field, such as the developmental patterns of NRMs and subcultural considerations in the study of NRMs. The first part of this book examines NRMs from a social-scientific perspective, particularly that of sociology. In the second section, the primary factors that have put the study of NRMs on the map, controversy and conflict, are considered. The third section investigates common themes within the field of NRMs, while the fourth examines the approaches that religious studies researchers have taken to NRMs. As NRM Studies has grown, subfields such as Esotericism, New Age Studies, and neo-Pagan Studies have grown as distinct and individual areas of study, and the final section of the book investigates these emergent fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190466190
• Artikelnr.: 48199002

Autorenporträt

James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromso (Norway). He currently co-edits three book series and is the general editor for the Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review. Recent publications include: (with Henrik Bogdan) Sexuality and New Religious Movements (2014), (with Carole Cusack) Sacred Suicide (2014), (with Bengt-Ove Andressen) Textbook Gods (2014), Sects & Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members (2014), (with Siv Ellen Kraft and Trude Fonneland) Nordic Neoshamanisms (2015), and (with Inga Bardsen Tollefsen) The Brill Handbook of Nordic New Religions (2015). Inga Bardsen Tollefsen is a PhD student at the University of Tromso (Norway). Her main research interest is NRMs and gender, and her thesis work focuses on gender in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission, as well as other Hindu-inspired global meditation movements. She has published several articles on the Art of Living Foundation, and she is a co-editor of several anthologies, such as Nordic New Religions (with James R. Lewis), and Female Leaders in New Religious Movements (with Christian Giudice).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* Introduction - James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen, Eds.
* PART I - Social-Scientific Approaches
* 1. Categorizing Religious Organizations: In Search of a Theoretically
Meaningful Strategy - David G. Bromley
* 2. Conversion - George D. Chryssides
* 3. Charisma and Authority in New Religious Movements - Erin Prophet,
Rice University,
* 4. Disaffiliation and New Religious Movements - Sean Currie
* 5. Seekers and Subcultures - James R. Lewis
* 6. Quantitative Approaches to New Religions - Margrethe Loov
* 7. Psychology and New Religious Movements - John A. Saliba
* 8. As It Was in the Beginning: Developmental Moments in the Emergence
of New Religions - David Bromley
* PART II - Controversy
* 9. The North American Anti-Cult Movement - Anson Shupe
* 10. The Christian Countercult Movement - Douglas E. Cowan
* 11. Legal Dimensions of New Religions - James T. Richardson
* 12. Brainwashing and "Cultic Mind Control" - James R. Lewis
* 13. From Jonestown to 9/11 and Beyond: Mapping the Contours of
Violence and New Religious Movements - Rebecca Moore
* 14. Conspiracy Theories and New Religious Movements - Asbjorn
Dyrendal
* 15. Satanic Ritual Abuse - James R. Lewis
* 16. Cult Journalism - Nicole S. Ruskell and James R. Lewis
* PART III - Themes
* 17. Invention in 'New New' Religions - Carole M. Cusack
* 18. Children in New Religions - Sanja Nilsson
* 19. Media, Technology, and New Religious Movements: A Review of the
Field - Shannon Schorey
* 20. New Religions and Science - Jeremy Rapport
* 21. Gender and New Religions - Inga Tollefsen
* 22. Sex and New Religions - Megan Goodwin
* 23. Occulture and Everyday Enchantment - Chris Partridge
* PART IV - Religious Studies Approaches
* 24. Rituals and Ritualization in New Religions - Mikael Rothstein
* 25. The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function,
Reality Construction, and Process - Diana Tumminia
* 26. Religious Experiences in New Religious Movements - Olav Hammer
* 27. New Religious Movements and Scripture - Eugene Gallagher
* 28. Material Religion - Jessica Moberg
* 29. Hagiography: A Note on the Narrative Exaltation of Sect Leaders
and Heads of New Religions - Mikael Rothstein
* 30. Millennialism: New Religious Movements and the Quest for a New
Age - Jean-Francois Mayer
* PART V - Subfields of Study
* 31. What Does God need with a Starship? UFOs and Extraterrestrials in
the Contemporary Religious Landscape - Erik Ostling
* 32. Late Modern Shamanism in a Norwegian Context: Global Networks -
Local Grounds - Trude Fonneland
* 33. Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions - Jesper
Aagaard Petersen and Cimminnee Holt
* 34. Western Esotericism and New Religious Movements - Henrik Bogdan
* 35 The New Age - Liselotte Frisk, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus and Siv Ellen
Kraft
* 36. The Study of Paganism and Wicca: A Review Essay - Kaarina
Aitamurto and Scott Simpson
* 37. Native American Prophet Religions - James R. Lewis and Ellen
Dobrowolski
* Index