480 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explaining how religion and society transform each other, this book explores such movements as Holiness, Adventism, religious communes, Satanism, New Age and democratization. The Sociology of Religious Movements is the culmination of work begun in The Future of Religion (the 1986 award winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) and A Theory of Religion (1993... Read more
1. The Religious Impulse The Dynamics Of Schism 2. Tension with the Socio-Cultural Environment 3. The Holiness Movement 4. Adventism 5. American Religious Communes The Dynamics Of Innovation 6. Cultural Diffusion 7. Asian Imports 8. The Family (Children of God) 9. The Process Church of the Final Judgement The Dynamics Of Transformation 10. Morality 11. The New York City Mission Society 12. Democratization Movements 13. The New Age Conclusion 14. The Perpetual System Tables.
Biography
William Sims Bainbridge
"I have already decided to assign this book as a text for my course in sociology of religion this year. This indicates my esteem for this study. I will assign it because of its focus on religious movements as a species of social movements rather than on religion as collective episode, institution or collectivity." -- Anglican Theological Review
