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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.
The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang, available at archive.org here; Ashanti by R. S. Rattray, available at archive.org here; Les religions des peuples non-civilses by Albert Reville; Il viaggio di Siam de'padri gesuiti mandatti dal re di Francia all'Indie, e alla China by Guy Tachard; Primitive Culture by Edward B. Tylor, available at archive ...
In an article that discusses the challenge of teaching students about new religious movements, Douglas E. Cowan explains that, because of "the thousands of NRMs that exist in the world at any one time, only a relative handful are ever discussed in the various print resources […], and the Internet is, by default, the only source of information available.
Research Project 2025 before voting. Whether you are Republican, Democrat, independent, senior citizen, government employee, teacher, healthcare worker, Christian or otherwise, please do your ...
Paul Francis Knitter (born February 25, 1939) is an American theologian.He is currently an emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary, where he has served as the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture since 2007.
In a review, John Moryl writes that the book addresses the topic of cults from the viewpoint of an evangelical Christian.Moryl questioned Rhodes's inclusion of certain groups in the book, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unitarian Universalism, and Freemasonry, and attributed this to a unique evangelical perspective.
James Roger Lewis was born November 3, 1949 in Leonardtown, Maryland, and raised in New Port Richey, Florida. [1] [2] In his youth, in the early and mid-seventies, he was a member of Yogi Bhajan's 3HO, a new religious movement combining the teachings of kundalini yoga and Sikhism.
America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-First Century (2002) by Peter Williams is a scholarly book covering a variety of religions in the United States. It is a major reworking of Williams' earlier book America's Religions: Traditions and Cultures , published in 1990.