The current controversy surrounding new religions has brought to the forefront the role of apostates. These individuals leave highly controversial movements and assume roles in other organizations as public opponents against their former movements. This volume examines the motivations of the apostates, how they are recruited and play out their roles, the kinds of narratives they construct to discredit their previous groups, and the impact of apostasy on the outcome of conflicts between movements and society.
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?The book is a superb effort to examine in depth the complexity and significance of the apostate role, and to illuminate the processes through which subversive evil is socially constructed. Taken together, the authors contribute a diverse array of theory, data and substantive insights that add to our knowledge of the inner-workings of new religious movements....I recommend this book for classes in organizations, sociology of religion, psychology of religion, group dynamics and related subjects.?-The Social Science Journal
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An analysis of the role, motivation, and impact of apostates in the current controversy surrounding new religions.
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This book has as its subject one of the most dramatic roles that has emerged around the conflict between some new religious movements and the social orders in which they have emerged, the apostate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Solar Temple, Peoples Temple, David Bromley, Island Pond, Branch Davidians, Unification Church, Christian Science, United States, University of Chicago Press, Newbury Park, Anson Shupe, Mount Carmel, David Koresh, Maria Monk, Six Months, Hare Krishna, Hotel Dieu, Rose-Marie Klaus, Supreme Court, New Brunswick, Stuart Wright, University of Illinois Press, Beverly Hills, Edwin Mellen New!
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