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Sacred schisms : how religions divide /

Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups. Because schisms emerge out of con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lewis, James R., Lewis, Sarah M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / James R. Lewis and Sarah Lewis
  • Part I: Theoretical overview
  • Understanding schisms : theoretical explanations for their origins / Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle
  • Part II: Survey of schisms in selected traditions
  • Charismatic authority in Islam : an analysis of the cause of schisms in the ummah / Ron Geaves
  • Schisms in Buddhism / Alan Cole
  • Schisms in Japanese new religious movements / Robert Kisala
  • Part III: Christian traditions
  • Finishing the mystery : the watch tower and 'the 1917 schism' / George D. Chryssides
  • Challenges to charismatic authority in the unificationist movement / David G. Bromley and Rachel S. Bobbitt
  • Persecution and schismogenesis : how a penitential crisis over mass apostasy facilitated the triumph of Catholic Christianity in the Roman Empire / Joseph M. Bryant
  • Part IV: Western esoteric traditions
  • Church universal and triumphant : shelter, succession and schism / Susan J. Palmer and Michael Abravanel
  • Schism and consolidation : the case of the theosophical movement / Olav Hammer
  • Satanists and nuts : the role of schisms in modern satanism / Jesper Aagaard Petersen
  • Schism as midwife : how conflict aided the birth of a contemporary pagan community / Murphy Pizza
  • Part V: Non-western/postcolonial traditions
  • Succession, religious switching, and schism in the Hare Krishna Movement / E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
  • Schisms within Hindu guru groups : the Transcendental Meditation movement in North America / Cynthia Ann Humes
  • Schism in Babylon : colonialism, Afro-Christianity, and Rastafari / Christopher Partridge.