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Controversial New Religions is an edited volume discussing new religious movements, or cults, that have resulted in controversy. It was co-edited by James R. Lewis and Jesper Aagaard Petersen, and was first published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. A second edition containing mostly new content was published with the same two editors in 2014.
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Lewis' previous work had focused on new religious movements, and he had edited several books on the topic. Containing 19 articles by 22 academics, mostly sociologists or scholars in religious studies, it discusses the intersection between new religious movements and violence, both perpetrated by and against the groups. It is divided into five ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
In Japan, the academic study of new religions appeared in the years following the Second World War. [11] [12]In the 1960s, American sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.
James T. Richardson for Review of Religious Research calls the book a "valuable contribution to the literature on new religions, social movements, and social control". [1] E. Burke Rochford for Social Forces agrees that the book is a valuable contribution, but believes that the uniqueness of the theoretical approach is overstated by Beckford. [2]
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The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death was published in 2006 by Ashgate. [5] According to the book's publisher, it is the first book-length work on the OTS in English, [6] and according to Hendrik Bogdan it was, as of 2011, still the only English-language academic book on the group. [7]