New religious movements in the twenty-first century : legal, political, and social challenges in global perspective / / edited by Phillip Charles Lucas and Thomas Robbins.
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 364 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Alternative religions, the state, and the globe / Thomas Robbins
- pt. 1. Western Europe. General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain / Eileen Barker
- Religious minorities and new religious movements in Denmark / Armin W. Geertz and Mikael Rothstein
- France's obsession with the "sectarian threat" / Daniele Hervieu-Leger
- The secte response to religious discrimination : subversives, martyrs, or freedom fighters in the French sect wars? / Susan J. Palmer
- Italy's surprisingly favorable environment for religious minorities / Massimo Introvigne
- New religions in Germany : the publicity of the public square / Brigitte Schoen
- pt. 2. Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New religions in the new Russia / Marat Shterin
- New religious minorities in the Baltic States / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova
- Crushing Wahhabi fundamentalists in Central Asia and the Caucasus : subplot to the global struggle against Al Qa'ida or suppression of legitimate religious opposition? / Brian Glyn Williams
- pt. 3. Africa, Asia, and Australia. Prophets, "false prophets," and the African state : emergent issues of religious freedom and conflict / Rosalind I.J. Hackett
- Religion on a leash : NRMs and the limits of Chinese freedom / Scott Lowe
- Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shift and moral panic in the post-Aum era / Ian Reader
- New religions in Australia : public menace or societal salvation? / James T. Richardson
- pt. 4. North and South Americas. The mainstreaming of alternative spirituality in Brazil / Robert T. Carpenter
- The fate of NRMs and their detractors in twenty-first century America / J. Gordon Melton
- New religions and the anticult movement in Canada / Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe
- pt. 5. Theoretical considerations. New religious movements and globalization / James A. Beckford
- Apocalypse 9/11 / John R. Hall
- Establishments and sects in the Islamic world / Mark Sedgwick
- Research on new religious movements in the post-9/11 world / Benjamin Zablocki and J. Anna Looney
- Cults, porn, and hate : convergent discourses on First Amendment restriction / Thomas Robbin and Dick Anthony
- Conclusion. The future of new and minority religions in the twenty-first century : religious freedom under global siege / Philip Charles Lucas.