Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography

ISBN-13: 9780367085933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 732 str.

John a. Saliba

Opis

This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture, focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture.

Spis treści

1. Sources for the Social-Scientific Study of Cults, Sects, and New Religious Movements  2. The Historical Background  3. General, Theoretical, and Methodological Studies on Sects, Cults, and New Religious Movements  4. Contemporary Studies on Specific Sects, Cults, and New Religious Movements