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“Kingdom-Building” through Global Diplomatic and Interfaith Agency: The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and Unificationist Millenarianism

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The Universal Peace Federation or UPF is a United Nations-affiliated NGO launched in 2005 by the late Mun Sŏn-myŏng, self-proclaimed Messiah and founder of the South Korean Unification Movement.
Lukas K. Pokorny, Dominic S. Zoehrer
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How to become fundamentalist a hungarian charismatic prophet’s new religious movement in the carpathian basin (an anthropological discourse analysis)

open access: yes, 2018
“I have visited Heaven several times. I was also in Hell two times. I saw how things were going on there. The Holy Spirit took me there. I understood that the border between the dimensions of Heaven and Earth can be crossed, as the world is one.
L. K. Csáji
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‘Partakers of the Divine Nature’: Ripley’s Discourses and the Transcendental Annus Mirabilis

open access: yesReligions, 2018
In declaring 1836 the “Annus Mirabilis” of Transcendentalism, Perry Miller captured the emerging vitality of a new religious movement, described by Convers Francis as “the spiritual philosophy”.
David M. Robinson
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Representations of the Iron Din Movement in Socio-Сommunicative and Historical-Cultural Discourses

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2022
In this article, we attempt to identify the topical issues of the religious movement Iron Din in socio-communicative, historical, cultural, and political discourses.
R. V. Shizhenskiy, P. P. Kocheganova
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The Challenges of Religious Literacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes which gloss over other personal factors such as age, class, gender and cultural differences.

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Transition, Emulation and Dispute over Authority in the Bábí/Bahá’í Faith

open access: yesReligions
This text attempts to analyze the competition for the leadership role in the young Bábí religious community after the execution of their leader, Báb (1819–1850).
Siarhei A. Anoshka
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Spiritual Process in Lightprayer: A Network of New Religious Practice

open access: yesTemenos, 2017
The article considers the conditions of spiritual process in the new-religious movement Lightprayer. Based on the analysis, it is argued that Lightprayer itself and the techniques involved can be seen as new-religious methods of self-awareness and ...
Ilona Raunola
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The Cao Đài Deathscape: Reimagining Death, Funerals, and Salvation in Contemporary Vietnam

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This article sheds light on the sophisticated funeral process set up by the Cao Đài religion (or Caodaism), combining both a theological and an ethnographical analysis.
Jérémy Jammes, Shao Zhu Shuai
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No-debt Movement in US Evangelicalism

open access: yes, 2022
Financial crises and economic recessions over the past few decades have given rise to the no-debt movement in both religious and non-religious spaces.
Womack, Nathan
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Travel and new religious movements

open access: yes, 2014
Travel, be it for leisure, work, exile, or under duress, is of great interest to scholars of religious phenomena, and particularly new religious movements (NRMs) from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
Alex Norman, Norman, Alex (R17959)
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