Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity (Routledge Revivals)

by Geoffrey Nelson

Overview

The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach which takes into account new concepts of human nature and of religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415614429
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/09/2012
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. The problem of new religious movements 2. Religion and sociology 3. Parapyschology and the sociology of religion 4. Human nature 5. Church - sect and cult 6. Cults and social movements 7. Religious creativity 8. Charisma and organization 9. Membership - recruitment and retention 10. The rise of new religious movements 11. The functions of new religious movements 12. The social problem of new religions 13. World-wide creativity 14. Return to the source