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Subject: Religion Book Title: Teaching New Religious Movements

Teaching New Religious Movements Bromley, David G., Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University Print publication date: 2007 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517729-9 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177299.001.0001
Abstract: Since its inception around 1970, the study of new religious movements (NRMs) has evolved into an established multidisciplinary field. At the same time, both the movements and the scholars who study them have been the subjects of intense controversy. In this book, a group of senior NRM scholars who have been instrumental in the development of the field offer pivotal essays in the form of chapters that present the basics of NRM scholarship along with guidance for teachers on classroom use. Keywords: new religious movements, NRM scholars, NRM scholarship, teaching, classroom use Table of Contents Full Book Contents Teaching New Religious Movements/Learning from New Religious Movements Part I. Orienting Perspectives in Teaching New Religious Movements Introducing and Defining the Concept of a New Religion Disciplinary Perspectives on New Religious Movements: Views from the Humanities and Social Sciences Methodological Issues in the Study of New Religious Movements New Religious Movements, Countermovements, Moral Panics, and the Media Part II. Central Issues in Teaching New Religious Movements The Meaning and Significance of New Religious Movements Deliberate Heresies: New Religious Myths and Rituals as Critiques Social Building Blocks of New Religious Movements: Organization and Leadership The Dynamics of Movement Membership: Joining and Leaving New Religious Movements Gender in New Religions Abuse in New Religious Movements: Challenges for the Sociology of Religion New Religious Movements and Violence Part III. Resources for Teaching New Religious Movements Responding to Resistance in Teaching about New Religious Movements Teaching New Religious Movements on the World Wide Web Charting the Information Field: Cult-Watching Groups and the Construction of Images of New Religious Movements New Religious Movements: A Bibliographic Essay Index

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177299.001.0001