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New Religious Movement, Old Religious Movement
Abstract This chapter leads the reader through a brief historical summary of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava traditions from which ISKCON derives, tracing the long view of the development of a transnational religious organization with a focus on the local and transregional networks at each major step in its formation. Beginning in sixteenth-centuryopenaire +1 more source
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In April 2008 law enforcement authorities raided the Texan ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the FLDS Church). A tip had been received that women and children inside the polygamous community were being abused. The group, which had broken away from the main Mormon Church in the 1930s, led an isolated existence.
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In April 2008 law enforcement authorities raided the Texan ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the FLDS Church). A tip had been received that women and children inside the polygamous community were being abused. The group, which had broken away from the main Mormon Church in the 1930s, led an isolated existence.
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Religious Experiences in New Religious Movements
2016Among the basic elements found in older and more recent religions alike are striking experiences such as visions, out-of-body experiences, and mystical union. On the one hand, such experiences as psychological phenomena. On the other, they are also social facts; something as intangible as a personal experience is somehow transformed into the bedrock of
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"News of Salvation": A New Religious Movement in Nigeria
Journal of Religion in Africa, 1985I was struck by lightning, while coming from school. I had been married for two weeks. I was blind on the spot. I went to Calabar to government doctors, having seen Dr. Ekim here at Oton. He sent me to Calabar. There at Calabar it was never discovered that I was blind. They said my eyes were clean. But the right eye was out of position.
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The Future of New Religious Movements.
Contemporary Sociology, 1988Teresa D. Marciano +2 more
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Religious Inventions in America: New Religious Movements
OAH Magazine of History, 2008Frederick Jackson Turner made the Census of 1890 famous when he used it to document the passing of the American frontier. Little noted is the fact that the same 1890 census produced a comprehensive survey of religion in America. Directed by H. K. Car roll, the survey "enumerated, classified, and described" the American religious community in all its ...
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Globalization and New Religious Movements
New Approaches To Religion and Power, 2021Felix Wilfred, Wilfred Felix
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Introduction to new religious movements
2012Hammer, Olav, Rothstein, Mikael
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Three types of new religious movement
2018This chapter provides a characterisation of the three types of new religion, illustrating the characteristics of each type from actual movements which appear to approximate them particularly closely, or to embody features of the type in a sharply visible form.
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