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Violence and new religious movements /

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The connection between cults and violence has been a topic of intense public interest that has been fueled by dramatic incidents of mass violence involving certain new religious movements (NRMs). The present volume represents the culmination of decades of reflection by scholarly specialists.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lewis, James R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Violence > Religious aspects.
Persecution.
Violence > Aspect religieux.
Persécutions.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Reference.
Persecution
Violence > Religious aspects
Gewalt
Neue Religion
Religion.
Neue Religiosität.
Gewalt.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Deciphering the NRM-violence connection / David G. Bromley
  • Minority religions and the context of violence : a conflict/interactionist perspective / James T. Richardson
  • Reciprocal totalism : the toxic interdependence of anticult and cult violence / Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony
  • Narratives of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom : violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown / Rebecca Moore
  • Revisiting the Branch Davidian mass suicide debate / Stuart A. Wright
  • Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple : a survey of hypotheses / Henrik Bogdan
  • Religion and violence in Japan : the case of Aum Shinrikyo / Martin Repp
  • The euphemization of violence : the case of Heaven's Gate / Benjamin Zeller
  • "There will follow a new generation and a new earth" : from apocalyptic hopes to destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God / Jean-Francois Mayer
  • Murder in Knutby : charisma, eroticism and violence in a Swedish Pentecostal community / Jonathan Peste
  • Modern pagan warriors : violence and justice in Rodnoverie / Kaarina Altamurto
  • Ananda Marga, PROUT and the use of force / Helen Crovetto
  • Knocking on heaven's door : violence, charisma, and the transformation of New Vrindaban / E. Burke Rochford
  • The Nation of Islam and violence / Martha F. Lee
  • Cultural capital, social networks, and collective violence at Rajneeshpuram / Marion S. Goldman
  • "Strong as steel, steady as stone" : skirting pitfalls in 3HO/Sikh dharma / Constance Elsberg
  • "Smite him hip and thigh" : Satanism, violence, and transgression / Jesper Aagaard Petersen
  • State fostered violence against the Falun Gong in China / James T. Richardson and Bryan Edelman
  • Deprogramming violence : the logic, perpetration, and outcomes of coercive intervention / Anson Shupe.