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Children of the New Ageby Steven Sutcliffe
Routledge 2002; US$ 39.95As the first true social history of New Age culture, this presents an unrivalled overview of the diverse varieties of New Age belief and practise from the 1930s to the present day. more...
New Religious Movements in the 21st Centuryby Phil Lucas; Tom Robbins
Routledge 2004; US$ 45.95This is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal, and religious contexts covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America. more...
Encyclopedia of New Religious Movementsby Peter Clarke
Routledge 2004; US$ 48.95An essential companion to both research and scholarship upon which undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers and researchers can all be expected to draw. more...
Pocketful of Miraclesby Joan Borysenko
Hachette Book Group USA 2001; US$ 9.99As the seasons change, so do our lives. In this unforgettable book, Joan Borysenko offers a unique, organic means of drawing personal strength and spiritual succor from the wondrous cycles of nature. Drawing on the ancient wisdom at the core of the world's religions, the guidance of the four great Archangels that stand at the gates of the Medicine Wheel, and her own deep mystical experience, she has divided the book into twelve inspiring monthly sections. Each reflects such emotionally significant themes as Forgiveness, Rebirth in Love, and Spiritual Healing. And each provides daily meditations, prayers, and affirmations that help you let go of fear and realize the light of peace and compassion that dwells throughout the universe . . . and... more...
Cyberhengeby Douglas E. Cowan
Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95In Cyberhenge, Douglas E. Cowan brings together two fascinating and virually unavoidable phenomena of the postmodern world - the electronic environment of the Internet and the emerging world of contemporary Neopaganism - Wiccans and other witches, Druids, Goddess-worshipers and ceremonial magicians - the Internet provides an environment alive with possibilities for invention, innovation and imagination. more...
Bounded Choiceby Janja Lalich
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves. more...
Cults and New Religious Movementsby Lorne L. Dawson
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2003; US$ 47.95What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion to address these key questions about new religious movements. Looks at theoretical explanations for cults, why people join and what happens when they do. Brings together the best work on cults by sociologists, historians, and psychologists of religion. A broad-ranging, balanced and clearly organized collection of readings. Includes coverage of topical issues, such as the 'brainwashing' controversy, and cults in cyberspace. Section introductions by the editor situate the nature, value, and relevance of the selected readings in context... more...
Peoples Temple and Black Religion in Americaby Rebecca Moore; Anthony B. Pinn; Mary R. Sawyer
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 17.55The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 men, women, and children died in a ritual of murder and suicide in their utopianist community of Jonestown, Guyana. Only a handful lived to tell their story. As is well known, Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, was white, but most of his followers were black. Despite that, little has been written about Peoples Temple in the context of black religion in America. In 10 essays, writers from various disciplines address this gap in the scholarship. Twenty-five years after the tragedy at Jonestown, they assess the impact of the black religious experience on... more...
New Age religion and Western cultureby W.J. Hanegraaff
BRILL 1996; US$ 95.00Analyzing contemporary New Age beliefs, this work argues that the foundations of such beliefs lie in the Western esoteric traditions of the Renaissance. The modern New Age movement is seen as having emerged from the secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century. more...
The Rhetoric of Religious Cultsby Annabelle Mooney
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 100.00Part of the process of brainwashing has to linguistic and textual, says Mooney (language and communication, Cardiff U., Wales), so if there is a connection between brainwashing and cults, there must be particular textual features in the literature of groups widely considered to be cults that do not appear in other genres. She found none in the thre more...









