The future of religion : secularization, revival, and cult formation

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The future of religion : secularization, revival, and cult formation

Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge

University of California Press, c1985

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Bibliography: p. 531-557

Includes index

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内容説明

Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future.

目次

Acknowledgments 1 The Nature of Religion 2 Of Churches, Sects, and Cults I THE RELIGIOUS ECNOMY 3 The Spectrum of Faiths 4 Religious Regionalism II SECT MOVEMENTS 5 The Eternal Exodus: Causes of Religious Dissent and Schism 6 American-Born Sect Movements 7 Sect Transformation and Upward Mobility: The Missing Mechanisms III CULTS 8 Three Models of Cult Formation 9 Cult Movements in America: A Reconnaissance 10 Client and Audience Cults in America 11 Cult Membership in the Roaring Twenties 12 Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear 13 The Rise and Decline of Transcendental Meditation IV RECRUITMENT 14 Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects 15 Friendship, Religion, and the Occult 16 The Arithmetic of Social Movements: Theoretical Implications 17 The "Consciousness Reformation" Reconsidered 18 Who Joins Cult Movements? V SOURCES OF RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS 19 Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation 20 Church and Cult in Canada 21 Europe's Receptivity to Cults and Sects 22 Rebellion, Repressive Regimes, and Religious Movements Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA00709612
  • ISBN
    • 0520048547
    • 0520057317
  • LCCN
    83018221
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Berkeley
  • ページ数/冊数
    vii, 571 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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