Legitimating new religions

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Legitimating new religions

James R. Lewis

Rutgers University Press, c2003

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780813533230

内容説明

This work deals explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. It contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. Mainstream society's acknowledgement of a religion as legitimate means recognizing its status as a genuine religion and thus recognizing its right to exist. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies James Lewis explores the diversification of legitimation strategies of new religions as well as the tactics that their critics use to de-legitimate such groups. Cases include the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, Native American prophet religions, spiritualism, the Church of Christ-Scientist, Scientology, Church of Satan, Heaven's Gate, Unitarianism, Hindu reform movements and Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect. Since many of the issues raised with respect to new religions can be extended to the legitimation strategies deployed by established religions, the book sheds light on classic questions about the origin of all religions.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813533247

内容説明

James R. Lewis has written the first book to deal explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. He contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion, and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. Mainstream society's acknowledgement of a religion as legitimate means recognizing its status as a genuine religion and thus recognizing its right to exist. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies Lewis explores the diversification of legitimation strategies of new religions as well the tactics that their critics use to de-legitimate such groups. Cases include the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, Native American prophet religions, spiritualism, the Church of Christ-Scientist, Scientology, Church of Satan, Heaven's Gate, Unitarianism, Hindu reform movements, and Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect. Since many of the issues raised with respect to newer religions can be extended to the legitimation strategies deployed by established religions, this book sheds an intriguing new light on classic questions about the origin of all religions.

目次

Religious experience and the origins of religion Native American prophet religions Jesus in India and the forging of tradition Science, technology, and the Space Brothers Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide The authority of the long ago and the far away Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy Religious insanity The cult stereotype as an ideological resource Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion

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