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This volume explores the Iron Age Phrygian rock-cut monuments in Anatolia and defines their role in religion. Among other features this book questions the traditional view of the Mother goddess Kybele being the only Phrygian deity. A detailed analysis based on the monuments provides new interpretations and aspects of Phrygian religion: the Mother goddess was not alone, but rather accompanied by a Superior male god. For the first time all known Phrygian rock-cut monuments are brought together in this useful corpus with plenty of illustrations. It is a unique and significant contribution to the study of Phrygian religion and spatial conceptualization and is useful for those interested in Anatolian culture and archaeology and classical religion and archaeology.

Shrines --- Monuments --- Cults --- Sanctuaires --- Cultes --- Turkey --- Turquie --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquités --- Monuments. --- Sacred space --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Historical monuments --- Architecture --- Sculpture --- Historic sites --- Memorials --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology

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This groundbreaking analysis of the controversial religious group, The Family, or The Children of God, uses interviews, observational techniques, and a comprehensive questionnaire completed by more than a thousand Family members. William Sims Bainbridge explores how Family members infuse spirituality with sexuality, channel messages that they believe emanate from beyond life, and await the final Endtime. He also examines attempts by anti-cultists and the state to "deprogram" members of the group, including children, by forcibly seizing them. The book's blending of theoretical analysis with vivid accounts of this remarkable counterculture poses a fascinating question for social scientists and society—how is it that The Children of God both differ from the general public and, in other ways, are so surprisingly similar to it?

Children of God (Movement) --- Cults --- Cults. --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Children of God --- the Family --- spirituality --- sexuality --- the final Endtime --- deprogramming

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This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions. Seventeen authors in this collection have recast their data on individual Asian religions and social movements to focus on the way these organizations are managed in an overseas or global context, by examining the structure, organizational culture, management style, leadership principles and marketing strategies of the religious movements they had hitherto studied from the perspective of the sociology of religion, or religious studies. The book examines strategies for global proselytization and outcomes in a variety of local ethnographic contexts, thus contributing to the scholarly work on the 'glocalization' of religions.

Cults --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Asia --- Religion. --- Marketing. --- New Religious Movements, Global Religions, Asian Religions, Religion and Marketing, Management of Religious Organizations.

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New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and spirituality. Moreover, many are having a profound impact on the form and content of mainstream religion. The 'Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements' provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three hundred movements from almost every country in the world. Coverage includes neo-traditional movements as well as movements that derive from the major religions of the world, which are often overlooked in the study of NRMs. In addition to the coverage of particular movements there are also entries on broad classifications and themes, and key topics, thinkers, and ideas- the New Age Movement, Neo-Paganism, gender and NRMs, cyberspace and NRMs, the Anti-Cult Movement, Swedenborg, Jung, de Chardin, Lovelock, Gurdjieff, al-Banna, and Qutb. The marked global approach and comprehensiveness of the 'Encyclopedia' enable an appreciation of the innovative energy of NRMs, of their extraordinary diversity, and the often surprising ways in which they can propagate geographically. The most ambitions publication of its sort, the 'Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements' is a major addition to the reference literature for students and researchers in the field of religious studies and the social sciences. Entries are cross-referenced, many with short bibliographies for further reading. There is a full index.

Cults --- Encyclopedias --- 291 <03> --- 2 --- 2 Godsdienst. Theologie --- Godsdienst. Theologie --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Denominations, Religious --- Religions, Modern --- Religious denominations --- Sectes --- Encyclopédies --- 2 Religion. Theology --- Religion. Theology --- Godsdienstige bewegingen. --- Cults - Encyclopedias. --- Sects - Encyclopedias. --- Sectes - Encyclopedies. --- encyclopedia --- new religious movements --- Opus Dei

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In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions as "mainstream" or "fringe" in the post-World War II United States.

Mass media in religion --- Cults --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Communication --- Mass media --- History. --- Religious aspects --- United States --- Church history --- Médias dans la religion --- Histoire --- Etats-Unis --- Histoire religieuse --- exoticism --- zealotry --- subversion --- the Cold War --- religious zeal --- the Nation of Islam --- brainwashing --- deprogramming --- mass suicide --- heresy