New Religions in Global Perspective : Religious Change in the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780415257480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 408 str.

Peter Clarke

Opis

This volume provides a complete guide to the global impact and cultural significance of new religious movements.

Recenzje

'Peter Clarke provides us with an excellent contemporary theoretical account of the field and a comprehensive source of information on a plethora of religious groups... I strongly recommend it.' - Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Spis treści

Part 1: Global Perspective, New Age, and Society’s Response  1. New Religious Movements: A Global Perspective  2. The New Age Movement (NAM): alternative or mainstream?  3. Accounting for Hostility to New Religious Movements  Part 2: New Religions in the West  4. New Religious Movements in Europe  5. New Religious Movements in North America  6. New Religious Movements in Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia (New Guinea)  Part 3: The New Religions of the Middle-East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean  7. New Islamic Movements in North Africa and the Middle-East  8. New Religious Movements in Africa South of the Sahara  9. New Religious Movements in South and Central America and the Carribean  Part 4: New Religions of South, Southeast and East Asia  10. New Religious Movements in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)  11. NRMs in South East Asia (Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia)  12. East Asia (1): Japanese New Religious Movements  13. East Asia (2): New Religious Movements in Japan, Taiwan and Korea  Part 5: Conclusions  14. Conclusion: The Uncertain Impact of Old and New Religions  Select Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Peter B. Clarke is Professor Emeritus of the History and Sociology of Religion at King's College, University of London, and a professorial member of Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. Among his publications are (with Peter Byrne) Religion Defined and Explained (1993) and Japanese New Religions In Global Perspective (ed) (2000). He is the founding editor and present co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.