A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements

ISBN-13: 9781138059887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 252 str.

W. Michael Ashcraft

Opis

This book tells the story of the scholars who pioneered and developed the field of New Religious Movement (NRM) studies. 

Spis treści

1 Introduction  2 Early Scholarship  3 NRM Studies: From 1965 to 1979  4 Bringing People Together  5 Cultic Studies  6 NRM Studies in the 1980s and early 1990s: Responding to Cultic Studies  7 Violence and NRM Studies  8 Gender: Past and Present  9 Fieldwork and NRM Studies  10 Conclusion: The Present and Future in NRM Studies

O autorze

W. Michael Ashcraft is Professor of Religion in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Truman State University, USA. He has published a monograph entitled The Dawn of the New Cycle (2002) and serves as an Editorial Consultant for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. He has also been part of the New Religious Movements Group of the American Academy of Religion for many years, spending six of those years as the chair.