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
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
Keywords: new religious movements, NRM scholars, NRM scholarship, teaching, classroom use
Table of Contents
Teaching New Religious Movements/Learning from 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
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
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
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