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Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion) by Douglas E. Cowan |
Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach by Irving Hexham |
Out of the Cults and Into the Church: Understanding and Encouraging Ex-Cultists by Janis Hutchinson |
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In the face of the popular crusade to link new religious movements to dangerous cults, brainwashing, and the need for deprogramming, Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe argue that many cults are in fact the product of dynamic interaction between folk religions and the teachings of traditional world religions. With the widespread loss of belief in biblical mythology in the nineteenth century, new mythologies based on science and elements derived from various non-Western religious traditions emerged, leading to the growth and popularity of new religions and cults. Drawing on examples from Africa, the United States, Asia, and Europe, the authors suggest that few new religions are really original. Most draw on rich, if localized, cultural traditions, which are then shaped anew by the influence of technological change and international linkages.
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Irving Hexham is professor of religious studies and Karla Poewe is professor of anthropology, both at the University of Calgary. Irving Hexham is professor of religious studies and Karla Poewe is professor of anthropology, both at the University of Calgary.
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- Belief Beyond Boundaries: Wicca, Celtic Spirituality and the New Age (Religion Today-Tradition, Modernity & Change) (Religion Today-Tradition, Modernity & Change) by Joanne Pearson on page 12
- Toward Reflexive Ethnography, Volume 9: Participating, Observing, Narrating (Religion and the Social Order) by David Bromley in Back Matter
- Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993 by Sean McCloud in Back Matter
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