Nelson Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-136-82622-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach which takes into account new concepts of human nature and of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The problem of new religious movements 2. Religion and sociology 3. Parapyschology and the sociology of religion 4. Human nature 5. Church - sect and cult 6. Cults and social movements 7. Religious creativity 8. Charisma and organization 9. Membership - recruitment and retention 10. The rise of new religious movements 11. The functions of new religious movements 12. The social problem of new religions 13. World-wide creativity 14. Return to the source