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Radical Transformations in Minority Religions book cover

1st Edition

Radical Transformations in Minority Religions

Edited By Beth Singler, Eileen Barker Copyright 2022
292 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; Jediism; various manifestations of Paganism; LGBT Muslim groups; the Plymouth Brethren; Santa... Read more
  1. Radical Changes in Minority Religions: Reflections

    2. Beth Singler

    Part One: Internal Forces Leading to Radical Changes

  2. What Did They Do About It? A Sociological Perspective on Reactions to Child Sexual Abuse in Three New Religions

    3. Eileen Barker

  3. Children of Heimdall: Ásatrú Ideas of Ancestry

    4. Karl E. H. Seigfried

  4. Varieties of Enlightenment: Revisions in the EnlightenNext Movement around Andrew Cohen

    5. André Van Der Braak

  5. "Not all Druids wear robes" - Countercultural Experiences of Youth and the Revision

    6. of Ritual in British Druidry

    Jonathan Woolley

    　

    Part Two: Technology and Institutions as Drivers of Change

  6. Santo Daime: Work in Progress

    7. Andrew Dawson

  7. A Song of Wood and Water: The Ecofeminist Turn in 1970s-1980s

    8. British Paganism

    Shai Feraro

  8. When Galaxies Collide: The Question of Jediism’s Revisionism in the Face of

    9. Corporate Buyouts and Mythos ‘Retconning’

    Beth Singler

    　

    Part Three: Change as a Part of a Process of Legitimation

  9. Regulating Religious Diversification: A Legal Perspective

    10. Frank Cranmer And Russell Sandberg

  10. Revision or Re-Branding? The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in

    11. Australia under Bruce D. Hales 2002-2016

    Bernard Doherty And Laura Dyason

  11. Appendix to Revision or Re-Branding? The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church 2002-2016

    12. PBCC

  12. Diversification in Samael Aun Weor’s Gnostic Movement

    13. David G. Robertson

  13. Using the New Religious Movements Framework to Consider LGBT

    14. Muslim Groups

    Shanon Shah

    　

    Part Four: New Prophecies or Revelations

  14. Digital Revisionism: The Aftermath of the Family International’s Reboot

    15. Claire Borowik

  15. The Mexican Santa Muerte from Tepito to Tultitlán: Tradition, Innovation

    16. and Syncretism at Enriqueta Vargas’ Temple

    Stefano Bigliardi, Fabrizio Lorusso, And Stefano Morrone

  16. From the Church of Satan to the Temple of Set: Revisionism in the Satanic

    17. Milieu

    Eugene V. Gallagher

  17. The ‘Messenger’ as Source of Both Stabilization and Revisionism in Church Universal and Triumphant and Related Groups

Erin Prophet

Biography

Eileen Barker, FBA, OBE, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion at the London School of Economics. In 1988, with the support of the Home Office and the mainstream Churches, she founded INFORM, an educational charity, now based at King’s College, London, which supplies information about alternative religions that is as objective and up-to-date as possible. She has over 400 publications, translated into 27 languages.

Beth Singler is a digital anthropologist whose first book, The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science, was the first ethnography of this primarily online community. Currently the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, Beth applies her anthropological approach to the stories we have about AI, digital discussions of its nature and impact, and online communities promoting apocalyptic, transhumanist, and future focussed accounts of AI.

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