The Next Religion
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Women In New Religions
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Author : Laura Vance
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-03-13
Women In New Religions written by Laura Vance and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-13 with Religion categories.
An in-depth history of selected New Religions that highlights the roles of women in their founding and continual practice Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity.
Why We Need Religion
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Author : Stephen T. Asma
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-09
Why We Need Religion written by Stephen T. Asma and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-09 with Religion categories.
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Controversial New Religions
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Author : James R. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Controversial New Religions written by James R. Lewis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Religion categories.
In terms of public opinion, new religious movements are considered controversial for a variety of reasons. Their social organization often runs counter to popular expectations by experimenting with communal living, alternative leadership roles, unusual economic dispositions, and new political and ethical values. As a result the general public views new religions with a mixture of curiosity, amusement, and anxiety, sustained by lavish media emphasis on oddness and tragedy rather than familiarity and lived experience. This updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at those groups that have generated the most attention, including some very well-known classical groups like The Family, Unification Church, Scientology, and Jim Jones's People's Temple; some relative newcomers such as the Kabbalah Centre, the Order of the Solar Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, and the Falun Gong; and some interesting cases like contemporary Satanism, the Raelians, Black nationalism, and various Pagan groups. Each essay combines an overview of the history and beliefs of each organization or movement with original and insightful analysis. By presenting decades of scholarly work on new religious movements written in an accessible form by established scholars as well as younger experts in the field, this book will be an invaluable resource for all those who seek a view of new religions that is deeper than what can be found in sensationalistic media stories.
Exploring New Religions
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Author : George D. Chryssides
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1999-12-01
Exploring New Religions written by George D. Chryssides and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-01 with Religion categories.
An objective, well-researched history of contemporary new religions and cults.New religious movements - popularly known as cults - arouse strong public opinion and most books on the subject are polemical, giving hostile reaction rather than informed exploration. Exploring New Religions provides an account of a wide variety of new religions, focusing on their origins, beliefs and practices, which are set out in a dispassionate way, leaving readers to form their own value judgements. George Chryssides provides important analysis of the killer cults-the Jonestown People's Temple, Waco, the Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate-examining the factors that made their followers willing to die for their cause. Older groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are discussed, and Chryssides traces the development of a variety of strands of spirituality, ranging from New Thought, Spiritualism and Theosophy. Subsequent chapters include the Baha'i, the Family (formerly Children of God), the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON), the Jesus Army, the Rastafarians, the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Unification Church ('the Moonies'). Lower profile groups are also discussed including: EST (Erhard Seminar Training), the New Kadampa Tradition, Brahma Kumaris, Sai Baba, Subud and the Western Buddhist Order. A study of the New Age phenomenon, and an account of societal responses to new religions at religious, societal and political levels is also included.
The Next Religion
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Author : Israel Zangwill
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-08-01
The Next Religion written by Israel Zangwill and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Another Gospel
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Author : Ruth A. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Another Gospel written by Ruth A. Tucker and has been published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Ruth A. Tucker's book is a comprehensive survey of all the major alternative religions in the United States, including the new groups since the 1960s.
The Elementary Forms Of The New Religious Life
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Author : Roy Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-19
The Elementary Forms Of The New Religious Life written by Roy Wallis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Social Science categories.
This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became international, others remained local; in other ways, too, such as style, belief, organisation, they exhibit enormous diversity. The movements studied here are classified under three ideal types, world-rejecting, world-affirming and world-accommodating, and from here the author develops a theory of the origins, recruitment base, characteristics, and development patterns which they display. The book offers a critical exploration of the theories of the new religions and analyses the highly contentious issue of whether they reflect the process of secularisation, or whether they are a countervailing trend marking the resurgence of religion in the West.
New Religious Movements
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Author : Claire Mason
language : en
Publisher: NA-r
Release Date : 2003
New Religious Movements written by Claire Mason and has been published by NA-r this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Offers a brief introduction to new religious movements, discussing why people join them, what effects they have on individual members, their families, and society as a whole, and how governments reconcile the principle of religious freedom with their duty to protect the public from potential harm.
The Next Step In Religion
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Author : Roy Sellars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-14
The Next Step In Religion written by Roy Sellars and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with categories.
"Is significant as indicating the need the modern thinker feels of coming to some understanding with religion....The book is an example of radicalism at its best. While the author never fails to state his opinion fully and frankly, he always does this with the least possible offense to those who differ from him. Dr. Sellars is not among those half-way thinkers who believe that liberal religion has already done its work, has indicated all the readjustments that need to be made, and so has nothing left to do except to sit down and let orthodoxy overtake it. Instead, he believes that important changes are yet to be made, that 'the perspective, intention, and elements of religion are about to alter.' 'Humanity hugs illusion more fondly than it does truth because it is more familiar with it.' It we only have spiritual courage we can all have a part in 'the high adventure of separating moral truth from theological illusion.'" -Christian Register "The benefit of the book is that of a cold plunge. It may be recommended strongly to those who are strong enough to get the glow of a wholesome reaction. To such the great stimulus of the work is in deepening the conviction that Christianity must demonstrate in the lives of its adherents that, here and now more than any other religion (using the word in its secondary as well as its primary sense) it makes for human values - intellectual, moral, aesthetic, etc. If it does not and cannot then it is doomed to be superseded and ought to be." -The Biblical World "'The center of gravity of religion has been openly changing for some time now from supernaturalism to what may best be called humanistic naturalism.' Dr. Sellars traces, in a flowing conciliatory style, the past and present of this process: finds the origins of supernaturalism in the impotence of primitive man - nature being worshiped where she cannot be controlled; and attributes the decay of supernaturalism to the development of man's knowledge and power. Nature is like any other feminine - not worshiped once she has been known. Along with this theological debacle has gone a domestication of ideals: Heaven has become Utopia, to be sought no longer by prayers to God but by telegrams to the President. Religion is to mean devotion to goodness, beauty, truth; 'selfish luxury will be scorned, property subordinated to welfare, economic fear lessened to the utmost, knowledge unenviously exalted, and art called into service.' This capacity of man to feel devotion is the noble element in the beast; for nourishing it religion may some day have her crimes forgotten. Morality alone - the restriction of self-seeking within social bounds - will not suffice; it must be touched with devotion. Religion is morality on fire; 'loyalty to the values of life.'" -The Dial "An able and well written book." -The Nation "Such a volume is stimulating - it shows how many of our cherished convictions and 'truths' are but guesses and idle words. And since we need such restatements it is well that they should be furnished by those who have such a large faith in the future." -Homiletic Review CONTENTS I SUGGESTIONS II THE AGE OF MYTH III STORIES OF CREATION IV MAGIC AND RITUAL V THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY VI THE PROPHET OF NAZARETH VII THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIANITY VIII THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY IX THE LIMITS OF PERSONAL AGENCY X DO MIRACLES HAPPEN? XI THE SOUL AND IMMORTALITY XII THE PROBLEM OF EVIL XIII RELIGION AND ETHICS XIV THE CHURCH AS AN INSTITUTION--THE CATHOLIC CHURCH XV THE CHURCH AS AN INSTITUTION--PROTESTANTISM XVI THE HUMANIST'S RELIGION
Seculosity
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Author : David Zahl
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Seculosity written by David Zahl and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Religion categories.
At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning. In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness, all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve, and he does so in a way that's at points playful, personal, and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.
