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Understanding the new religions
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- Creator
- edited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Seabury Press, 1978
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 314 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816404032, 0816404038, 9780816421886, 0816421889
- OCLC
- ocm04114589
- "A Crossroad book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Claude Welch -- Preface / Jacob Needleman -- Introduction / George Baker -- From Sinai to the golden gate: the liberation of religion in the occident / Sydney E. Ahlstrom -- Roots of the American ethos / John Dillenberger -- New religious movements and the structure of religious sensitivity / Joseph E. Chinnici -- Dimensions of new religion in American history / Eldon G. Ernst -- Ethics, ecstasy, and the study of new religions / Theodore Roszak -- Religious movements and the transition in world order / Robert Wuthnow -- The effect of detente on the growth of new religions: Reverend Moon and the Unification church / Dick Anthony & Thomas L. Robbins -- The interpenetration of new religion and religious studies / Walter H. Capps -- Religious studies as "new religion" / Robert N. Bellah -- The impact of the new religions on psychology / Daniel Goleman -- Deep structures in the study of new religions / Harvey Cox -- Toward a religious criterion of religion / Langdon Gilkey --
- On knowing how we know about the new religions / Donald Stone -- Reflections on the transmission of Buddhism to America / Charles Prebish -- Charisma and ritual in new religious movements / Frederick Bird -- Radhasoami as a trans-national movement / Mark Juergensmeyer -- New religions and religious liberty / J. Stillson Judah -- Black reflections on the study of new religious consciousness / Archie Smith -- The spiritual movement of radical feminist consciousness / Emily Culpepper -- Researching a fundamentalist commune / James T. Richardson, Mary W. Stewart & Robert B. Simmonds -- What is next in the study of new religions? / Charles Y. Glock -- Integrative and transformative religions / Barbara Hargrove -- Emergent religion in America: an historical perspective / Robert S. Ellwood -- Language and mind in the study of new religious movements / George Baker