Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Barker, Eileen, 1938-; Beckford, James A.; Richardson, James T., 1941-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 267 p.
• Other title: Introduction /; Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements /; Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third /; Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace /; Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective /; Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat /; Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom /; Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy /; Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy /; Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective /; Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore /; PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT --; What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? /; Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries /; Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective /; Gendered spiritualities /; Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse /; Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality /; Sociology of wisdom /; Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.; "A selection of Eileen Barker's principal publications in English": p. [229]-236.
• ISBN: 0415309484 (alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson.