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A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, 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.
A member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness proselytising on the streets of Moscow, Russia. A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture.
Numerous new religious movements have formed in the United States. A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. There is no single, agreed-upon criterion for defining a "new religious movement". [1]
Pages in category "New religious movements" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 230 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28117-2 .
She wrote Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions (2006) which analyzes the perception and responses for and against NRMs in various cultures. [227] Edward Breschel: Sociology Breschel is a professor of sociology, social work, and criminology at Morehead State University.
It is a foundational democratic tenet taught in every basic U.S. history course: the Constitution bars the government from endorsing an official religion or favoring one over others. But moves by ...
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.