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alternative religions --- sects --- cults --- Opus Dei
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Denounced by some as a dangerous cult and lauded by others as a miraculous faith community, the International Churches of Christ was a conservative evangelical Christian movement that grew rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s. Among its followers, promises to heal family relationships were central to the group's appeal. Members credit the church for helping them develop so-called "awesome families"-successful marriages and satisfying relationships with children, family of origin, and new church "brothers and sisters." The church engaged an elaborate array of services, including round-the-clock counseling, childcare, and Christian dating networks-all of which were said to lead to fulfilling relationships and exciting sex lives. Before the unified movement's demise in 2003-2004, the lure of blissful family-life led more than 100,000 individuals worldwide to be baptized into the church. In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group that was founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals. Weaving classical and contemporary social theory, she argues that members were commonly attracted to the structure and practice of family relationships advocated by the church, especially in the context of contemporary society where gender roles and family responsibilities are often ambiguous. Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this timely study adds to our understanding of modern society and offers insight to the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.
Christian sociology --- International Churches of Christ. --- Sociology --- Disciple (Christianity) --- Evangelicalism --- Family (biology) --- God --- the International Churches of Christ --- healing relationships --- therapeutic religious movements --- alternative religions --- conservative Evangelical Christian movement --- the Kingdom of God
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Cults. --- Sects. --- Religions. --- Religion and sociology. --- Christianity and other religions. --- Cultes --- Sectes --- Religions --- Sociologie religieuse --- Christianisme --- Relations --- 298 --- 298.9 --- 289 --- 316:2 --- Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Religions, Modern --- 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 --- Sects --- Niet-christelijke Europese godsdiensten --- Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- Andere christelijke sekten --- Godsdienstsociologie --- History --- 316:2 Godsdienstsociologie --- 298.9 Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- Religion and sociology --- alternative religions --- the post-Christian society --- beliefs, practices and significance of alternative religions --- public and legal controversies --- secularisation, post-modernity, religion, healing, human potential --- changes in global culture --- Christian fundamentalism --- neo-paganism --- new religious movements (NRM) --- Pentecostalism
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Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion and race, class, gender, and region. Virtually always, the dramatic, dynamic history of alternative religions runs parallel to that of dissent in America. Communities of Dissent is an evenhanded and marvelously lively history of New Religious Movements in America. Stephen J. Stein describes the evolution and structure of alternative religious movements from both sides: the critics and the religious dissenters themselves. Providing a fascinating look at a wide range of New Religious Movements, he investigates obscure groups such as the 19th-century Vermont Pilgrims, who wore bearskins and refused to bathe or cut their hair, alongside better-known alternative believers, including colonial America's largest outsider faith, the Quakers; 17th- and 18th-century Mennonites, Amish, and Shakers; and the Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Muslims, and Scientologists of today. Accessible and comprehensive, Communities of Dissent also covers the milestones in the history of alternative American religions, from the infamous Salem witch trials and mass suicide/murder at Jonestown to the positive ways in which alternative religions have affected racial relations, the empowerment of women, and American culture in general.
Cults --- Sects --- Denominations, Religious --- Religions, Modern --- Religious denominations --- Religions --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- History. --- United States --- Religion. --- History --- Religion --- Cults - United States - History --- Sects - United States - History --- United States - Religion --- popular religion --- peace movements --- Colonial America --- Apocalyptic traditions --- healers --- Occultists --- sectarians --- 20th century sects --- 20th century cults --- Alternative religions in America
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Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.
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 --- Cults --- 298.9 --- Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- 298.9 Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- collaborationism --- research integrity --- the study of alternative religions --- the sociological study of cults --- scientific theory of brainwashing --- pseudo science --- conversion --- The Family --- Children of God --- Scientology --- Stephen Kent's 'Revival of the Brainwashing model' --- Lorne Dawson --- society --- totalist groups --- new religious movements --- religious violence in America
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The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler?s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich?s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire.
Occultism --- Paganism --- Superstition --- National socialism and occultism --- Religion and politics --- Political culture --- Popular culture --- Secret societies --- Occultisme --- Paganisme --- Superstitions --- Nazisme et occultisme --- Religion et politique --- Culture politique --- Culture populaire --- Sociétés secrètes --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- History. --- History --- Aspect politique --- Histoire --- Hitler, Adolf, --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- the supernatural roots of Nazism --- Ario-Germanic religion --- border science --- the Austro-German Occult Revival --- the Thule Society --- the NSDAP --- the Nazi supernatural imaginary --- Hitler --- Weimar --- the Third Reich --- anti-Occultism --- Hitler's magicians --- Hess --- Ario-Germanic Paganism --- Indo-Aryan spirituality --- the Nazi search for alternative religions --- the supernatural and the Second World War --- folklore --- foreign policy --- propaganda --- military operations --- racial resettlement --- human experiments --- the Holocaust --- miracle weapons --- supernatural partisans --- the collapse of the Third Reich
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Cults --- Sects --- Cultes --- Sectes --- Etats-Unis --- United States --- Religion --- new religious movements --- American history --- leadership --- careers in new religious movements --- the law --- globalization --- Evangelical Christian Countercult Movement --- violence --- gender --- new religions --- alternative religions --- children --- Mormonism --- same-sex eroticism --- gender fluidity --- Millennialism --- Judaism --- Christianity --- the Shakers --- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- the Adventist tradition --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- Christian Science --- People's Temple --- the Children of God --- the Family --- the Branch Davidians --- Christian Identity --- Protestantism --- American Millennial mythology --- Messianic Judaism --- the Theosophical Society --- the American New Thought Movement --- North American Esotericism --- Eckankar --- the New Age --- contemporary Shamanism --- Goddess worship --- feminist spirituality --- the United States --- Wicca --- witchcraft --- modern Paganism --- ritual --- Neopaganism --- metaphysics --- Swedenborgianism --- Spiritualism --- America --- Asian traditions --- the Vedanta Society --- the Hare Krishna movement --- Soka Gakkai --- Guru Maharaj Ji --- Prem Rawat --- paradigm shifts --- 1966-2006 --- Adidam --- Buddhism --- Tibetan Buddhism --- The Unification Church --- Baha'i --- the Nation of Islam --- African American Islamic community --- the Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths --- Black Israelites --- Black Jews --- Black Hebrews --- Black Israelism --- Black Judaism --- Judaic Christianity --- Santeria --- Rastafarianism --- Vodou --- New Orleans --- Satanism --- the Church of Satan --- the Church of Scientology --- Heaven's gate --- UFO religion --- the Raëlian movement --- new nature religions --- alternative nature religions
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Sociology --- cults --- new religious movements --- the cult --- the cultic milieu --- secularization --- cult formation --- revitalization movements --- charismatic leadership --- Hasidism --- Moonism --- charisma --- counterculture --- the People's Temple --- Babism --- Baha'ism --- militancy --- quietism --- conflation --- the construction of a religion --- Japanese new religions --- Gedatsu-kai --- Millenarianism --- the Apocalypse --- religious rivalry --- religious studies --- Heaven's Gate --- Branch Davidian --- Waco --- sacred narrative --- East-West dialogue --- mythmaking --- African American Muslims --- the Moorish Science Temple --- the Nation of Islam --- the American Society of Muslims --- neo-Sufism --- the Church of All Worlds --- science fiction --- environmentalism --- holistic Paganism --- the feminist spirituality movement --- the Easternisation of the West --- pluralism --- the American mainstream --- the World's Parliament of Religions --- Japan --- Japanese new religious movements --- conversion motifs --- neo-Paganism --- the Devil --- Satanism --- prophecy --- the Jehovah's Witnesses --- prophetic expectations --- decentered movements --- Rastafari --- charisma-based new religious movement --- the Baba Lovers --- hagiography --- the Aetherius Society --- the social construction of a religious leader --- New Age --- the discursive construction of community --- the Satsang network --- post-Osho phenomenon --- conversion --- brainwashing --- the Solar Temple --- secret religion --- the educated classes --- Scientology --- post-apostasy --- marketing charisma --- making religious celebrity in Ghana --- NRMs --- new religion --- new religions and alternative religions --- the relationship between scholars and the new religious movements --- Western Esotericism --- the science of religions --- superstition --- doctrine --- the return of the sacred --- the future of religion --- religion in modernity --- culture --- Russia --- Falun Gong --- politics --- China --- social change --- gender roles --- online religion --- the study of religious participation on the internet --- alternative spiritualities --- the reenchantment of the West --- Terence McKenna --- 2012 --- science --- contemporary spiritual movements in India --- religious dimensions of UFO phenomena --- new religious forms --- sacralization --- family structures --- feminist discourse on the scientific study of religion --- women in the Raelian movement --- gender and authority --- The Family International --- food practices --- social dynamics --- the Hare Krishna movement --- children in new religions --- duties of care --- charismatic groups --- Subud --- Javanese mysticism in the West --- media --- health --- lifestyle --- healing in new religious movements --- the Otherkin community --- the mass media --- Mormonism --- contemporary global culture --- race --- globalisation --- racism --- millennialism --- Cuban santeria --- Haitian Vodun --- Peurto Rican spiritualism --- multiculturalism --- syncretism --- Esotericism --- the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé --- globalization of Pentecostal Christianity --- globalization of charismatic Christianity --- fair game --- the Church of Scientology --- Paganism --- Humanism --- Unitarian Universalism --- sectarian converts --- ethnic orthodox churches in the United States --- cold war --- America
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Periodicals --- Cults --- Religions --- Religion. --- Religiöse Bewegung. --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Cults. --- Religions. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Pseudoreligion --- Sects --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Religiöse Bewegung --- new religions --- book reviews --- Human Rights --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- prophecy --- islam --- Australia --- Australian aborigines --- ufology --- UFOs --- UFO Religions --- heathenism --- traditionalism --- Left-Hand Path (LHP) --- satanism --- religious pluralism --- misconceptions --- religious diversity --- discrimination --- methodology --- new religious movements (NRM) --- minority religions --- Watch Tower --- eschatology --- Watch Tower Society --- biblical chronology --- failed predictions --- Religious Studies --- Sociology --- muslims --- conversion --- Aboriginal Muslims --- Australian Aboriginies --- marginalisation --- Aliens --- extraterrestrials --- myths --- Sweden --- Swedish UFO movement --- Erland Sandqvist --- Gösta Rehn --- Radical Taditionalism --- esotericism --- The Rune-Gild --- paganism --- runes --- surveys --- questionnaires --- alternative religions --- neopaganism --- neo-paganism --- identity construction --- Catholicism --- Monastic Organizations --- Zen Buddhism --- Japanese Zen --- Japanese Buddhist Schools --- Ningen Zen Kyodan (人間禅教団) --- laypeople --- Ningen Zen --- japanese religions --- koji Zen --- Ayurveda --- Omega Man (1971) --- counter-cult movement --- Richard Matheson --- cult wars --- films --- movies --- Ayurvedic health counselling (Sweden) --- holistic medicine --- spirituality health care --- positioning --- coaching --- alternative medicines --- Religious organizations --- Monastic Communities --- children --- children in new religious movements --- children and cults --- sects --- Candice O'Denver --- postmodernity --- awareness --- Great Freedom group --- David Lyon --- Kenneth Gergen --- Anthony Giddens --- self-improvement --- Japan --- Mormonism --- apocalypse --- millennialism --- Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教) --- Shoko Asahara (麻原彰晃) --- Kofuku no Kagaku (幸福の科学) --- Japanese new religious movements --- church-sect dichotomy versus esoteric interpretation --- symbolism --- magic and masonry --- Book of Mormon --- Book of Abraham --- Latter-day Saints --- mormons --- Joseph Smith Jr. --- Theosophy --- messianism --- Slavdom --- White Brotherhood --- Bulgaria --- national identity --- Bogomils --- New Atheism --- Enlightenment --- Irreligion --- Secularity --- Healing Churches --- religious therapy --- spiritual healing --- discordianism --- Chaos magic --- fiction-based religions --- Hugh B. Urban --- Principia Discordia (1965) --- Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) --- Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) --- parody religions --- shinshūkyō (新宗教) --- Happy Science (幸福の科学, Kōfuku-no-Kagaku) --- The Family International (TFI) --- Organizational Change --- David Berg --- the Reboot --- New Zealand --- Census --- Religious Denominations --- affiliation --- disafilliation --- apostasy --- Church of Scientology --- sociology of religion --- ex-cult members --- Landmark Education --- the Landmark Forum --- corporate religion --- Werner Erhard --- Transcendental Meditation (TM) --- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar --- Sudarshan Kriya --- legitimization --- religious entrepreneurship --- Art of Living movement --- Glastonbury --- Frederick Bligh Bond --- historiography of religion --- Glastonbury Abbey --- New Age --- Modern Satanism --- dialogue --- the Unification Church --- Korea --- Won Buddhism --- new religion --- self-differentiation --- inter-religious dialogue --- the Pope --- anti-Catholic dialogue --- the 'symbolic construction' of identity --- fundamentalisms --- the symbolic origins of Rastafari --- Hare Krishna --- popular culture --- theology --- Ireland's New Religious Movements --- the fundamentalist Latter Day Saints --- Texas --- raid --- the International Raelian movement --- new religious movements --- mainstream religions --- the State --- secular Estonia --- Unification Church (UC) --- Sun Myung Moon --- World Council of Churches (WCC) --- Kingdom of Heaven --- Troeltsch --- Second Coming --- salvation --- Lord of the Second Advent --- Divine Principle --- Universal Peace Federation (UPF) --- World Peace --- ecumenism --- interfaith --- global ethic --- Sot’aesan --- Ilwŏnsang --- Chŏngsan --- Ethics of Triple Identity --- homophobia --- pedophilia --- Claude Vorilhon --- Church-state relations --- religion and law --- neoliberalism --- Social Networks --- International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) --- Hare Krishna movement --- Longitudinal Approaches --- Exclusive Brethren --- media --- newspapers --- controversy --- politics --- content analysis --- church - state issues --- media transformation --- anticult movement (ACM) --- former members --- brainwashing --- Halal --- Kosher --- food --- Food and Religion --- taboo --- fundamentalism --- authenticity --- purity --- glatt --- spiritual therapies --- gender --- gender discrimination --- Jehovah’s witnesses (Sweden) --- Reiki --- conspiracism --- David Icke --- theodicy --- Reptilian Thesis --- New Age Theodicy --- teenagers --- One-World View --- Two-World View --- George Gurdjieff (1866–1949) --- Peter D. Ouspensky --- Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii (Пётр Демьянович Успенский) --- spirituality --- religious groups --- atheism --- personal autonomy --- sacredness --- complementary medicine --- alternative medicine --- professionalization --- self-regulation --- Swedish Reiki organizations --- Beelzebub --- Satanism studies --- boundary-work --- research methods --- feminism --- Anton Szandor LaVey (1930 - 1997) --- sex magic --- occultism --- witchcraft --- feminine fluids --- bodily secretions --- Aleister Crowley --- women --- Essentialism --- Constructionism --- Femininity --- female leadership --- Gnosticism --- heavy metal music --- Latin American Folk Religion --- Contemporary Legends --- anti-cosmic Satanism --- heavy metal --- Nordic black metal music --- Order of Nine Angles (ONA or O9A) --- traditional Satanism --- progressive Left-Hand Path --- Sinister milieu
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