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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson
- PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
- Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson
- Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III
- Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-Francois Mayer
- Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg
- Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin
- PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL
- Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins
- Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne
- Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine
- Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton
- Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill
- PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT
- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond
- Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet
- Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie
- Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire
- Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark
- PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS
- Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann
- Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies
- Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn.