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Routledge New Religions


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The popularity and significance of New Religious Movements is reflected in the explosion of related articles and books now being published. This series offers an invaluable resource and lasting contribution to the field.

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Heaven's Gate Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group

Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group

1st Edition

Edited By George D. Chryssides
March 22, 2016

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heaven's Gate group indicate that they believed they were stepping out of their 'physical containers' in order to ascend to a UFO that was ...

The Nuwaubian Nation Black Spirituality and State Control

The Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control

1st Edition

By Susan Palmer
November 28, 2016

The Nuwaubian Nation takes the reader on a journey into an African-American spiritual movement. The United Nuwaubian Nation has changed shape since its inceptions in the 1970s, transforming from a Black Hebrew mystery school into a Muslim utopian community in Brooklyn, N.Y.; from an Egyptian theme ...

The Order of the Solar Temple The Temple of Death

The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death

1st Edition

Edited By James R. Lewis
September 06, 2016

In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Québec were murdered or committed suicide. This incident and two later group suicides in subsequent years played a pivotal role in inflaming the cult controversy in Europe, influencing the public to support ...

Paganistan Contemporary Pagan Community in Minnesota's Twin Cities

Paganistan: Contemporary Pagan Community in Minnesota's Twin Cities

1st Edition

By Murphy Pizza
April 17, 2014

Paganistan - a moniker adapted by the Twin Cities Contemporary Pagan community - is the title of a history and ethnography of a regionally unique, urban, and vibrant community in Minnesota. The story of the community traces the formation of some of the earliest organizations and churches in the US,...

Invented Religions Imagination, Fiction and Faith

Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith

1st Edition

By Carole M. Cusack
September 28, 2010

Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and ...

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