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.