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Legitimating new religions
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- Creator
- James R. Lewis
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813533236, 0813535344, 9780813557229, 0813557224, 9780813533247, 9780813535340, 9780813533230, 0813533244
- OCLC
- ocm54961514, ocm70731221, ocm51892655
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.
- Part I : Legitimating new religions -- Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Part II : Legitimating repression -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion