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New Religious Movements in Global Perspective [PDF]

Zeitschrift für Junge Religionswissenschaft, 2012
This essay provides a systems theoretical perspective on the contentious debate on the term ›New Religious Movement‹ (NRM). Based on the systems theory, according to Niklas Luhmann amongst others, the essay analyses the general problems of defining NRMs.
Moritz Klenk
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Dying and/or Killing for the Faith: New Religious Movements and Violence

İnsan & Toplum, 2016
It is known that New Religious Movements (NRMs), which also named as “cult groups”, “sects” and “new age religions”, emerged particularly in Western societies in parallel with the changes which experienced from the second half of twentieth century on a ...
Emine Battal
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Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements

Theological Librarianship, 2008
New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and spirituality.
Kris Veldheer
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Review the Social and Political Factors Affecting the Trend of New Religious Movements (Case Study: Two Movements Eckankar and Elijah Ramallah) [PDF]

توسعه اجتماعی, 2015
Although religion has always played a part in the community cohesion and contributes to the convergence of groups and individuals, but the new cult of religious causes divisions in the community as well as deepening and intensification of social fissures.
jafar hezarjaribi, hassan farahani
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New Religious Movements and the Response of the Church

, 2023
Rad se bavi problemom novih religijskih pokreta i vjerskih sljedbi koje su svojom pojavom potaknule Crkvu na promišljanje, ali i vlastitu obnovu. Od početka religija, a samim time i kršćanstva, javljale su se razne shizme, hereze i izazovi za Crkvu, a ...
Barić, Tea
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Travel and new religious movements

, 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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Commodities Produced by Religious Communities on the Food Market: Competitive Advantage or Ruining Reputation? [PDF]

Journal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management, 2017
Recently the ecosystem of religious life had gone through radical changes: by the emerging of new religious movements the choices became freer than previously.
Bence, Krisztina
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Researching New Religious Movements [PDF]

, 2004
New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious ...
Arweck, Elisabeth
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The new religious movements - agents of religious globalization in Romania [PDF]

Revista Română de Sociologie, 2008
The starting point is the assumption according to which the emergence and proliferation of new religious movements in our country is both a consequence and a form of manifestation of religious liberties after 1990, but, at the same time, one of the most ...
MANUELA GHEORGHE
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New Religious Movements before Modernity?

, 2018
Can the study of new religious movements be extended historically towards a longue durée history of religious innovation? Several sociological theories suggest that fundamental differences between premodern and modern religious configurations preclude ...
Sita Steckel, Andreas Pietsch
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