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Violence and new religious movements

Title: Violence and new religious movements [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Lewis.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

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Lewis, James R.

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1 online resource (xii, 443 p.)

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Violence and new religious movements (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Deciphering the NRM-violence connection / David G. Bromley -- Minority religions and the context of violence : a conflict/interactionist perspective / James T. Richardson -- Reciprocal totalism : the toxic interdependence of anticult and cult violence / Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony -- Narratives of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom : violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown / Rebecca Moore -- Revisiting the Branch Davidian mass suicide debate / Stuart A. Wright -- Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple : a survey of hypotheses / Henrik Bogdan -- Religion and violence in Japan : the case of Aum Shinrikyo / Martin Repp -- The euphemization of violence : the case of Heaven's Gate / Benjamin Zeller -- "There will follow a new generation and a new earth" : from apocalyptic hopes to destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God / Jean-François Mayer -- Murder in Knutby : charisma, eroticism and violence in a Swedish Pentecostal community / Jonathan Peste -- Modern pagan warriors : violence and justice in Rodnoverie / Kaarina Aitamurto -- Ananda Marga, PROUT, and the use of force / Helen Crovetto -- Knocking on heaven's door : violence, charisma, and the transformation of New Vrindaban / E. Burke Rochford, Jr. -- The Nation of Islam and violence / Martha F. Lee -- Cultural capital, social networks, and collective violence at Rajneeshpuram / Marion S. Goldman -- "Strong as steel, steady as stone" : skirting pitfalls in 3HO/Sikh dharma / Constance Elsberg -- "Smite him hip and thigh" : satanism, violence, and transgression / Jesper Aagaard Petersen -- State-fostered violence against the Falun Gong in China / James T. Richardson and Bryan Edelman -- Deprogramming violence : the logic, perpetration, and outcomes of coercive intervention / Anson Shupe.

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