168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of 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 many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba,... Read more
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
Biography
Roy Wallis
