New religious movements : a documentary reader
Dereck Daschke, W. Michael Ashcraft, New York University Press (Publisher)
Brings together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of new religious movements (NRMs), and offers a first-hand look into their belief systems. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists.
Print Book, English, cop. 2005
New York University Press, New York, cop. 2005
X, 341, [3] s. ; 23 cm.
9780814707029, 9780814707036, 0814707025, 0814707033
1000047799
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I New Understandings1 Christian Science 2 Theosophy 3 UFO Religious Groups Part II New Selves4 Wicca 5 Soka Gakkai Part III New Families6 The Uni?cation Church7 The Family / Children of God 8 Santeria 9 The Rastafarians 10 The Nation of Islam 11 Peoples Temple Part V New Worlds12 The Adventist Tradition 13 Jehovah's Witnesses 14 The New Millennium: NRMs and the Year 2000 Appendix: Constructing the New Religious Threat: Anticult and Countercult Movements Douglas E. CowanIndex About the Editors