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ISBN 10: 0759103569
ISBN 13: 9780759103566
Author: John Saliba

Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions. But arguments tend to become even more heated when the religion under discussion is characterized as new. Divisions around the study of new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, or nontraditional or alternative or emergent religions are so acute that there is even controversy over what to call them. John Saliba strives to bring balance to these discussions by offering perspectives on new religions from different academic perspectives: history, psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. This approach provides rich descriptions of a broad range of movements while demonstrating how the differing aims of the disciplines can create much of the controversy around NRMs. The new second edition has been updated and revised throughout and includes a new foreword by noted historian of religion, J. Gordon Melton. For classes in religion or the social sciences, or for interested individuals, Understanding New Religious Movements offers the most objective introduction possible.

Understanding New Religious Movements 2nd Table of contents

Chapter One: The New Religious Movements in Contemporary Western Culture: An Overview
Chapter Two: The History of New Religious Movements in the West
Chapter Three: The New Religious Movements in Psychological Perspective
Chapter Four: The New Religious Movements in Sociological Perspective
Chapter Five: The New Religious Movements in the Law Courts
Chapter Six: The New Religious Movements in Christian Theological Perspective
Chapter Seven: Counseling and the New Religious Movements

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