Research Catalog

Title

New religions in a postmodern world / edited by Reender Kranenborg and Mikael Rothstein.

Publication

Aarhus ; Oxford : Aarhus University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Kranenborg, R.
• Rothstein, Mikael

Description

293 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Cults > Congresses
• Millennialism > Congresses
• Eschatology > Congresses
• Cults > Social aspects > Congresses
• Godsdienstige bewegingen
• Postmodernisme

Note

• Conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lectorium Rosicrucianum: a Dutch movement becomes international / Massimo Introvigne -- Swedenborg, Freemasonry, and Swedenborgian Freemasonry: an overview / Jan A.M. Snoek -- How traditional are the Traditionalists? The case of the Guénonian Sufis / Mark Sedgwick -- Tantric influences in Western esotericism / Albertina Nugteren -- Millennial catastrophism in popular Baha'i lore / Margit Warburg & David Piff -- Hindu eschatology within modern Western religiosity / Reender Kranenborg -- Civilized shamans: sacred biography and founders of new religious movements / Robert Ellwood -- Hagiography and text in The Aetherius Society: aspects of the social construction of a religious leader / Mikael Rothstein -- South African New Age prophets: past and present / Christine Steyn -- Making history: memory and forgetfulness in new religious movements / Judith Coney -- Les témoignages de convertis et d'ex-adeptes / Jean Duhaime -- New Age participants in Sweden: backgrounds, beliefs, engagement and "conversion" / Liselotte Frisk -- Students in Ramtha's School of Enlightenment: a profile from a demographic survey, narrative and interview / Constance A. Jones.

ISBN

• 8772887486 (pbk)
• 9788772887487 (pbk)

OCLC

• 51270468
• SCSB-11110116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library