Legitimating new religions /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2003.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=107154 |
Table of Contents:
- Religious experience and the origins of religion
- Native American prophet religions
- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition
- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers
- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition
- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide
- The authority of the long ago and the far away
- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy
- Religious insanity
- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource
- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.