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Legitimating New Religions.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813535340
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Legitimating New ReligionsDDC classification:
  • 200/.9/04
LOC classification:
  • BP603 -- .L49 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: Legitimating New Religions -- Chapter 1: Religious Experience and the Origins of Religion -- Chapter 2: Native American Prophet Religions -- Chapter 3: Jesus in India and the Forging of Tradition -- Chapter 4: Science, Technology, and the Space Brothers -- Chapter 5: Anton Lavey, The Satanic Bible, and the Satanist Tradition -- Chapter 6: Heaven's Gate and the Legitimation of Suicide -- Chapter 7: The Authority of the Long Ago and the Far Away -- PART 2: Legitimating Repression -- Chapter 8: Atrocity Tales as a Delegitimation Strategy -- Chapter 9: Religious Insanity -- Chapter 10: The Cult Stereotype as an Ideological Resource -- Chapter 11: Scholarship and the Delegitimation of Religion -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Satanist Survey -- Appendix B: Ex-member Survey -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: Legitimating New Religions -- Chapter 1: Religious Experience and the Origins of Religion -- Chapter 2: Native American Prophet Religions -- Chapter 3: Jesus in India and the Forging of Tradition -- Chapter 4: Science, Technology, and the Space Brothers -- Chapter 5: Anton Lavey, The Satanic Bible, and the Satanist Tradition -- Chapter 6: Heaven's Gate and the Legitimation of Suicide -- Chapter 7: The Authority of the Long Ago and the Far Away -- PART 2: Legitimating Repression -- Chapter 8: Atrocity Tales as a Delegitimation Strategy -- Chapter 9: Religious Insanity -- Chapter 10: The Cult Stereotype as an Ideological Resource -- Chapter 11: Scholarship and the Delegitimation of Religion -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Satanist Survey -- Appendix B: Ex-member Survey -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

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