The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life

ISBN-13: 9780367025038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 164 str.

Roy Wallis

Opis

This book, first published in 1984, examines the new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains their major characteristics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Three Types of New Religious Movement  3. Social Change and the new Religions  4. Secularisation and the New Religions  5. The Middle Ground and the ‘Integrative Hypothesis’  6. Developments I: The Precariousness of the Market  7. Developments II: The Precariousness of Charisma  8. Concluding Theoretical Observations  Appendix. Substance and Method in Studies of New Religious Movements

O autorze

Roy Wallis