TY  - BOOK
N2  - "New Religious Movements is a highly unique volume, bringing together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of a wide array of new religious movements (NRMs), and offering a first-hand look into their belief systems. Arranged by the editors according to a new typology, the text allows readers to consider NRMS along five interrelated pathways-from those that offer new perceptions of existence or new personal identities, to those that center on relationships within family-like units, to those movements that highlight the need for recasting the social order or anticipate the dawn of a new age. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists, as well as many others. Each section is prefaced by a contextual introduction and concludes with a list of sources for further reading. New Religious Movements offers a rare inside look into the worldviews of alternative religious traditions"--Publisher description.
AB  - "New Religious Movements is a highly unique volume, bringing together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of a wide array of new religious movements (NRMs), and offering a first-hand look into their belief systems. Arranged by the editors according to a new typology, the text allows readers to consider NRMS along five interrelated pathways-from those that offer new perceptions of existence or new personal identities, to those that center on relationships within family-like units, to those movements that highlight the need for recasting the social order or anticipate the dawn of a new age. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists, as well as many others. Each section is prefaced by a contextual introduction and concludes with a list of sources for further reading. New Religious Movements offers a rare inside look into the worldviews of alternative religious traditions"--Publisher description.
T1  - New religious movements :a documentary reader /
DA  - ©2005.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Daschke, Dereck.
AU  - Ashcraft, W. Michael,
CN  - BL2525
PB  - New York University Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - ©2005.
ID  - 1380635
KW  - Sects
KW  - Cults
KW  - Cults.
KW  - Religion.
KW  - Sects.
KW  - Neue Religion
KW  - Sekte
SN  - 0814707025
SN  - 9780814707029
SN  - 0814707033
SN  - 9780814707036
TI  - New religious movements :a documentary reader /
ER  -