Encyclopedia of new religious movements
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Encyclopedia of new religious movements
Routledge, 2006
Available at 35 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and spirituality. Moreover, many are having a profound impact on the form and content of mainstream religion. The Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three-hundred movement from almost every country in the world. Coverage includes movements that derive from the major religions of the world and to neo-traditional movements, movements often overlooked in the study of NRMs.
In addition to the coverage of particular movements there are also entries on topics, themes, key thinkers and key ideas, for example the New Age Movement, Neo-Paganism, New Religion and gender, NRMs and cyberspace, NRMs and the law, the Anti-Cult Movement, Swedenborg, Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, Lovelock, Gurdjieff, al-Banna, Qutb.
The marked global approach and comprehensiveness of the encyclopedia enable an appreciation of the innovative energy of NRMs, of their extraordinary diversity, and the often surprising ways in which they can propagate geographically. The most ambitions publication of its sort, the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements is a major addition to the reference literature for students and researchers of the field in religious studies and the social sciences. Entries are cross-referenced with short bibliographies for further reading. There is a full index.
Table of Contents
- Azusa Street Revival
- Baba, Sathya Sai
- Bahai
- Bailey, Alice (see also New Age)
- Bamba, Ahmadu (see also Mouridiyya)
- Barelvis
- Bennett, J. G.
- Besant, Annie
- Bethesda Movement
- Big Drum Dance
- Black Hebrews
- Black Jews
- Black Muslims
- Black Spiritual Churches
- Black theology
- Blavatsky, Anna
- Brahma Kumaris Movement
- Brahmo Samaj
- Branch Davidians (see also Waco)
- Breatharianism
- Brotherhood of the Cross and Star
- Buddha's Light Temple
- Buddhism, Mahayana
- Buddhism, Vajrayana
- business and NRMs
- Byakko Shinkokai
- Caddy, Eileen and Peter (see also Findhorn and New Age)
- Candomble
- Caodaism
- Cargo Cults
- Catholic Charismatic Movement
- Celestial Church of Christ (see also Aladura)
- charismatic Christianity
- Cherubim and Seraphim Churches
- Chidvilasananda
- children and NRMs
- Chopra, Deepak
- Christ Apostolic Church
- Church for the Spirit of Jesus Christ
- Church of Christ in Japan
- Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Jehovah's Witnesses)
- Church of Satan
- Church of the Lord Aladura (see Aladura)
- Church of the Twelve Apostles (Nackabah)
- Church Universal and Triumphant
- conceptual issues
- consumerist ethic and NRMs
- Costa Chica
- Cross of Christ World Mission
- Cult of Maria Lionza (see also: Alan Kardec, Kardecism and Spiritualism)
- daimoku
- Daishonin Nichiren (see also Nichiren Shosu and Soka Gakkai)
- Daku Community
- Damanhur
- Dargawiyya Movement
- defining/characterizing NRMs
- Deguchi, Nao (see also Omotokyo)
- Deguchi, Onisaburo (see also Omotokyo)
- Deima Cult
- Deobandi Movement
- deprogramming
- Divine Light Mission
- Dream Dance (see also Powwow Cult)
- Dynamic Meditation (see also Rajneesh Movement)
- Earth People of Trinidad
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