Research Catalog

Title

Of gods and men : new religious movements in the West : proceedings of the 1981 Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Study Group / Eileen Barker, editor.

Author

British Sociological Association. Sociology of Religion Study Group. Conference (1981 : Lincoln, England)

Publication

Macon, GA : Mercer University Press, ©1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barker, Eileen, 1938-

Description

xii, 347 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Religions > Congresses
• Cults > Congresses
• Religion > Congresses
• Religion
• Cults
• Religions
• Godsdienstige bewegingen
• Sekten

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• Preface / Eileen Barker -- Patterns of Conversion / John Lofland and / Norman Skonovd -- Second Thoughts on the Presumed Fragility of Unconvential Beliefs / David A. Snow and / Richard Machalek -- The Politics of Religious Movements / Carroll J. Bourg -- Financing the New Religions: A Broader View / James T. Richardson -- Pentecostal Power: The "Charismatic Renewal Movement" and the Politics of Pentecostal Experience / Andrew Walker -- NRPR: The New Religious-Political Right in America / Samuel S. Hill -- The Moral Majority in the U.S.A. as a New Religious Movement / Paul Anthony Schwartz and / James McBride
• The Fun-Seeking Movement in California / Jean Burfoot -- Esoteric "New Religious Movements" and the Western Esoteric Tradition / Geoffrey Ahern -- A Comparison of Anti-Cult Movements in the United States and West Germany / Anson D. Shupe, Jr., / Bert L. Hardin, and / David G. Bromley -- The "Cult Problem" in Five Countries: The Social Construction of Religious Controversy / James A. Beckford -- Participation Rates in New Religious and Parareligious Movements / Frederick Bird and / William Reimer -- Strategies for Survival: Sectarian Experience in the Third Reich / Christine E. King -- New Religious Movements and Mental Health / Wolfgang Kuner -- Making the Work: Ideas of Social Responsibility in the Human Potential Movement / Steve M. Tipton -- Recruitment Strategies, Ideology, and Organization in the Hare Krishna Movenment / E. Burke Rochford Jr. -- Subgroups in Divine Light Mission Membership: A Comment on Downton / Frans Derks and / Jan M. van der Lans -- The Ones Who Got Away: People Who Attend Unification Church Workships and Do Not Become Members / Eileen Barker

ISBN

• 0865540950
• 9780865540958

LCCN

83023822

OCLC

• ocm10277434
• 10277434
• SCSB-614670

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library