Challenging Religion

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ISBN: 9780415309486 | 0415309484
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/5/2003

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By reflecting on the important work of Eileen Barker, leading scholars examine the growth of new religious movements or cults in the U.S. and Europe over the last 50 years and government attempts to monitor and control them. This timely and intelligent collection considers the political, practical and ethical issues and debates surrounding the topic.

Notes on contributors

viii

List of abbreviations

xiv

Introduction

(10)

James A. Beckford

James T. Richardson

PART I New religious movements

(58)

Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements

(11)

Bryan R. Wilson

Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third

(12)

N.J. Demerath III

Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace

(11)

Jean-Francois Mayer

Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective

(9)

Margit Warburg

Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat

(13)

Marat Shterin

PART II Religious `deviance' and control

(58)

Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom

(11)

Thomas Robbins

A chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controversies and the Great Cult Apologist Conspiracy

(9)

Massimo Introvigne

Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy

(11)

Jean La Fontaine

The countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective

102

(12)

J. Gordon Melton

The making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore

114

(13)

Michael Hill

PART III Religious freedom and empowerment

127

(66)

What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence?

129

(13)

Phillip E. Hammond

Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries

142

(17)

Karel Dobbelaere

Jaak Billiet

Religious minorities in France: a Protestant perspective

159

(11)

Grace Davie

Gendered spiritualities

170

(11)

Meredith B. Mcguire

The making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse

181

(12)

Nancy Nason-Clark

PART IV Philosophy and methods

193

(36)

Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality

195

(10)

Thomas Luckmann

The sociology of wisdom

205

(12)

Douglas Davies

Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination

217

(12)

Richard K. Fenn

A selection of Eileen Barker's principal publications in English

229

(8)

Bibliography

237

(20)

Index

257

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