Researching New Religious Movements /

Researching New Religious Movements / / Elisabeth Arweck.

New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious reactions that they evoke from...

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Arweck, Elisabeth,
Place / Publishing House:London, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (464 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • What this book is about
  • Milestones in a research itinerary
  • Institutions and institutional knowledge
  • Institutions
  • Institutional knowledge
  • Sketching in the cultural background
  • The contours of religious cultures
  • The contours of academic cultures
  • The "anti-cult" movement's response
  • The ACM response in Britain : the case of FAIR
  • The ACM response in Germany : the case of Elterninitiative
  • The response of the mainstream churches
  • The Church of England's response
  • The response of the Protestant Church in German
  • Evangelische Zentralstelle für
  • Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW)
  • Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack and
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und
  • Weltanschuungsfragen
  • The response of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Conclusions.

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