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Legitimating new religions
- Title
- Legitimating new religions / James R. Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, James R.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-259) and index.
- Contents
- Part I : legitimating new religions -- 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 -- Part II : legitimating repression -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-17002
- ISBN
- 0813533236 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813533244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003005987
- OCLC
- 51892655
- Author
- Lewis, James R.
- Title
- Legitimating new religions / James R. Lewis.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-259) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-17002