Religious Movements in Contemporary America

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. x*INTRODUCTION. The Common Foundation of Religious Diversity, pg. xvii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*The Legitimation of Marginal Religions in the United States, pg. 9*"The Law Knows No Heresy": Marginal Religious Movements and the Courts, pg. 27*INTRODUCTION, pg. 53*Uncovering Ritual Structures in Afro-American Music, pg. 60*The Psychology of the Spiritual Sermon, pg. 135*Ritualization: A Study in Texture and Texture Change, pg. 150*In the Beginning Was the Word: The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches, pg. 166*INTRODUCTION, pg. 223*Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Altered States of Consciousness, pg. 228*Prognosis: A New Religion?, pg. 244*Cocoon Work: An Interpretation of the Concern of Contemporary Youth with the Mystical, pg. 255*INTRODUCTION, pg. 275*Ritual, Release, and Orientation: Maintenance of the Self in the Antinomian Personality, pg. 283*Sectarianism and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Controlled Comparison of Puerto Rican Pentecostals and Catholics, pg. 298*Spiritualists and Shamans as Psychotherapists: An Account of Original Anthropological Sin, pg. 330*A Medium for Mental Health, pg. 338*Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism, pg. 355*Belief, Ritual, and Healing: New England Spiritualism and Mexican-American Spiritism Compared, pg. 383*Ideological Support for the Marginal Middle Class: Faith Healing and Glossolalia, pg. 418*INTRODUCTION, pg. 459*The Hare Krishna Movement, pg. 463*The Meher Baba Movement: Its Affect on Post-Adolescent Social Alienation, pg. 479*INTRODUCTION, pg. 515*Latter-Day Sense and Substance, pg. 519*Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction, and Occultism, pg. 547*INTRODUCTION, pg. 591*The Historical Study of Marginal American Religious Movements, pg. 596*Culture Crises and New Religious Movements: A Paradigmatic Statement of a Theory of Cults, pg. 612*Towards a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft, pg. 628*The Deprivation and Disorganization Theories of Social Movements, pg. 646*INTRODUCTION, pg. 665*Pentecostalism: Revolution or Counter-Revolution?, pg. 669*"Publish" or Perish: Negro Jehovah's Witness Adaptation in the Ghetto, pg. 700*The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion, pg. 722*CONCLUSION. Perspectives for Future Research, pg. 767*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 771*CONTRIBUTORS, pg. 815*INDEX, pg. 823