CiNii 図書 - Cults in context : readings in the study of new religious movements

In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new religions has been matched by the development of an organized and vocal opposition, the anti-cult movement. This in turn has prompted an extensive investigation of new religious movements (NRMs) by sociologists and psychologists of religion, as well as historians and religious studies scholars. The readings collected here contribute to the debate about cults by sampling some of the best and most accessible publications from the academic study of NRMs.The contributors address the questions most commonly asked about cults, such as: What brought about the emergence of new religious movements? What is a cult or new religious movement? Who joins new religious movements and why? Are converts to new religious movements brainwashed? Why did the Jonestown and Waco tragedies happen? Are cults inclined to be violent? What does the emergence of so many new religious movements say about our society? What does it say about the future of religion?Cults in Context surveys the descriptive typologies, theories, and data accumulated by sociologists and psychologists studying new religious movements over the last twenty years. It serves to defuse many popular fears and misconceptions about cults, allowing the reader to develop a more reasonable and tolerant understanding of the people who join new religious movements and the functions of these movements in contemporary society.

A: The Nature and Study of Cults
One: The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must Be Joking!
Two: Definitions of Cult: From Sociological-Technical to Popular-Negative
Three: Three Types of New Religious Movements
B: The Historical and Sociological Context of Cults
Four: A Time when Mountains were Moving
Five: The New Religions: Demodernization and the Protest Against Modernity
Six: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation
C: Who Joins New Religious Movements and Why?
Seven: The Role of Deprivation in the Origin and Evolution of Religious Groups
Eight: On Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective
Nine: The Joiners
D: The Coercive Conversion Controversy
Ten: The Seduction Syndrome
Eleven: A Critique of "Brainwashing" Claims About New Religious Movements
Twelve: Clinical and Personality Assessment of Participants in New Religions
E: The Satanism Scare
Thirteen: The Construction of Satanism as a Social Problem in Canada
Fourteen: Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism
Fifteen: Teenage Satanism as Oppositional Youth Subculture
F: Violence and New Religious Movements
Sixteen: Sects and Violence: Factors Enhancing the Volatility of Marginal Religious Movements
Seventeen: The Apocalypse at Jonestown
Eighteen: Cult Extremism: The Reduction of Normative Dissonance
G: The Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements
Nineteen: Women's 'Cocoon Work' in New Religious Movements: Sexual Experimentation and Feminine Rites of Passage
Twenty: The New Age Movement and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival: Distinct Yet Parallel Phases of a Fourth Great Awakening?
Twenty-One: Cultural Consequences of Cults
Appendix: Cults and the Internet
Twenty-Two: NRMS, the ACM, and the WWW: A Guide for Beginners

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