Legitimating new religions /

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James R. Lewis has written the first book to deal explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. He contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public op...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lewis, James R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Cults > Psychology.
Psychology, Religious.
Authority > Religious aspects.
Psychologie religieuse.
Autorité > Aspect religieux.
psychology of religion.
RELIGION > History.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Religious.
Authority > Religious aspects
Cults > Psychology
Psychology, Religious
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Religious experience and the origins of religion
  • Native American prophet religions
  • Jesus in India and the forging of tradition
  • Science, technology, and the Space Brothers
  • Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition
  • Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide
  • The authority of the long ago and the far away
  • Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy
  • Religious insanity
  • The cult stereotype as an ideological resource
  • Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.

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