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Sacred Schisms : How Religions Divide.
This first book-length study of religious schisms as a general phenomenon draws widely from different traditions and geographical areas.
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sources of schisms; Part I Theoretical overview; CHAPTER 1 Understanding schisms: theoretical explanations for their origins; Part II Survey of schisms in selected traditions; CHAPTER 2 Charismatic authority in Islam: an analysis of the cause of schisms in the ummah; CHAPTER 3 Schisms in Buddhism; CHAPTER 4 Schisms in Japanese new religious movements; Part III Christian traditions; CHAPTER 5 Finishing the Mystery: the Watch Tower and "the 1917 schism."
- CHAPTER 6 Challenges to charismatic authority in the Unificationist MovementCHAPTER 7 Persecution and schismogenesis: how a penitential crisis over mass apostasy facilitated the triumph of Catholic Christianity in the Roman empire; Part IV Western esoteric traditions; CHAPTER 8 Church Universal and Triumphant: shelter, succession and schism; CHAPTER 9 Schism and consolidation: the case of the theosophical movement; CHAPTER 10 Satanists and nuts: the.