Legitimating new religions

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Autore principale: Lewis, James R.
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
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Sommario:
  • 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.