Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements: Over 400 Groups, Individuals & Ideas Clearly and Concisely Defined
Sep 2009 · InterVarsity Press
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A 2003 Finalist in the Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards! Studying new religious movements can be like trying to learn several languages at once, each with its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax. The flourishing variety of these movements today makes the task even more difficult. Irving Hexham has designed Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements to be an indispensable companion for students of religion and a fascinating guide for curious and perplexed observers of the religious scene. Here are nearly 450 entries covering
- specific groups, from the Aetherius Society to the Zion Christian Church
- practices, from the Alexander technique to Yoga
- UFO religion, from alien abductions to Unarius Academy of Science
- symbols, from the ankh to yin-yang
- religious texts, from the apocryphal New Testament to the Vinaya-Pitaka
- religious leaders, from George Adamski to Rabbi Zalman
About the author
Hexham is professor of religious studies at the University of Calgary in Alberta (Canada). An internationally recognized expert on new religious movements, he is the author (with Karla Poewe, his wife) of Understanding Cults and New Religions (Eerdmans, 1986) and New Religions as Global Cultures (Westview, 1997).
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