Research Catalog

Title

New religions : based on papers read at the Symposium on New Religions held at Åbo on the 1st-3rd of September, 1974 / edited by Haralds Biezais.

Author

Symposium on New Religions, Turku, Finland, 1974.

Publication

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; Stockholm : Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, [1975?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Biezais, Haralds, 1909-1995.

Description

223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis ; 7

Uniform Title

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis ; 7.

Subject

• Religions > Congresses
• Cults > Congresses
• Cults
• Religions
• Godsdienstige bewegingen

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• English or German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

The problem of millenarism in India / Erik af Edhom -- Maoism : a new religious formation in the People's Republic of China / Ake Haglund -- Avatara and Sakti : traditional symbols in the Hindu Renaissance / Arick Sharpe -- Conditions for the spread of the Peyote cult in North America / Ake Hultkrantz -- What we can learn from non-biblical prophet movements / Axel Ljungdahl -- Revivalist movements and religious contracultures in Finland . Juha Pentikainen -- Millerism : an historical enigma? / Ingermar Linden -- Formative factors of the Maria Akerblom movement / Gustav Bjorkstrand -- Jehovah's Witnesses' three periods / Ake strom -- Children of God in Bergen . Karin Kvideland -- Ton il : some observations on a central problem in the psychology of religion / Hjalmar Sunden -- The religious message in action : a case study . Rene Gothoni, Kirsti Suolinna -- Sociology of religion and the occult revival / Lennart Ejerfeldt -- The new in the new religious movements among Zulu and Swazi / Bengt Sundkler.

LCCN

76357170

OCLC

• ocm02983502
• 2983502
• SCSB-164785

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library