Moderate Fundamentalists : : Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at in the Lens of Cognitive Science of Religion / / Muhammad Afzal Upal.
In the mid 1950s, a British taxi driver named George King claimed that Budha, Jesus, and Lao Tzu had been alien "cosmic masters" who had come to earth to teach mankind the right way to live. Sun Myung Moon claimed that Korean people are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Joseph Smit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Warsaw ;, Berlin : : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Tribal Gods: My God Is Better than Yours
- 3 Social Identity Change Entrepreneurs
- 4 Attraction of the New
- 5 Social Counterintuiveness
- 6 Shared Beliefs of Northwestern Indian Muslims
- 7 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
- 8 Ratcheting Up of Counterintuitiveness in Ahmadiyya Doctrine
- 9 Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Glossary of Arabic/Urdu Terms
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Person Index
- Geographic Index