
Controversial New Religions
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I: GROUPS IN THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
- 1. A Family for the Twenty-first Century
- 2. Spirit Revelation and the Unification Church
- 3. Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories about Jonestown
- 4. Explaining Militarization at Waco: The Construction and Convergence of the Warfare Narrative
- PART II: ASIAN AND ASIAN-INSPIRED GROUPS
- 5. Family Development and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement
- 6. When Leaders Dissolve: Considering Controversy and Stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh Movement
- 7. Soka Gakkai: Searching for the Mainstream
- 8. Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident: A Critical Introduction
- 9. The Falun Gong: A New Religious Movement in Post-Mao China
- 10. Notes on the Aumist Religion
- PART III: ESOTERIC AND NEW AGE GROUPS
- 11. Inventing L. Ron Hubbard: On the Construction and Maintenance of the Hagiographic Mythology of Scientology's Founder
- 12. The Theosophical Society
- 13. The Solar Temple "Transits": Beyond the Millennialist Hypothesis
- 14. From Atlantis to America: JZ Knight Encounters Ramtha
- 15. Heart and Soul: A Qualitative Look at the Ethos of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
- PART IV: OTHER GROUPS AND MOVEMENTS
- 16. "Come On Up, and I Will Show Thee": Heaven's Gate as a Postmodern Group
- 17. The Raëlian Movement: Concocting Controversy, Seeking Social Legitimacy
- 18. White Racist Religions in the United States: From Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans
- 19. Modern Satanism: Dark Doctrines and Black Flames
- Index
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