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Cults in Context
Language: en
Pages: 725
Authors: Lorne Dawson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
Cults in Context
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Lorne L. Dawson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
Comprehending Cults
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Lorne L. Dawson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Cults--what do we really know about them? Long the focus of controversy, cults or what sociologists prefer to call new religious movements, have been studied by
Religion in Context
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: I. M. Lewis
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-04-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Religious power assumes many strikingly different forms, which are often regarded as unique, unrelated, and even mutually exclusive. Religion in Context, howeve
Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Lorne Dawson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-06-09 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians,