Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson.
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Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 267 p. |
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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 / |
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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. |