'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective: New and Minority Religions Contributor(s): Gallagher, Eugene V. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472458125 ISBN-13: 9781472458124 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General |
Dewey: 209 |
LCCN: 2016025434 |
Series: Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Mo |
Physical Information: 188 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the Unification movement, The Family International (Children of God), the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and the Church of Scientology. Bringing together both insiders and outsiders from various academic disciplines and personal perspectives, this book takes account of the ways in which the cult question is defined and addressed in different countries. It offers a vivid depiction of how the cult wars or cult controversies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries first took shape; the transformation of deeply entrenched positions on cults and sects as at least some members of new groups, cult watchers, |