Understanding the new religions /

Understanding the new religions / edited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. - New York : Seabury Press, 1978. - xxi, 314 p. ; 24 cm.

"A Crossroad book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Foreword / Claude Welch --
Preface / Jacob Needleman --
Introduction / George Baker --
From Sinai to the golden gate: the liberation of religion in the occident / Sydney E. Ahlstrom --
Roots of the American ethos / John Dillenberger --
New religious movements and the structure of religious sensitivity / Joseph E. Chinnici --
Dimensions of new religion in American history / Eldon G. Ernst --
Ethics, ecstasy, and the study of new religions / Theodore Roszak --
Religious movements and the transition in world order / Robert Wuthnow --
The effect of detente on the growth of new religions: Reverend Moon and the Unification church / Dick Anthony & Thomas L. Robbins --
The interpenetration of new religion and religious studies / Walter H. Capps --
Religious studies as "new religion" / Robert N. Bellah --
The impact of the new religions on psychology / Daniel Goleman --
Deep structures in the study of new religions / Harvey Cox --
Toward a religious criterion of religion / Langdon Gilkey. On knowing how we know about the new religions / Donald Stone --
Reflections on the transmission of Buddhism to America / Charles Prebish --
Charisma and ritual in new religious movements / Frederick Bird --
Radhasoami as a trans-national movement / Mark Juergensmeyer --
New religions and religious liberty / J. Stillson Judah --
Black reflections on the study of new religious consciousness / Archie Smith --
The spiritual movement of radical feminist consciousness / Emily Culpepper --
Researching a fundamentalist commune / James T. Richardson, Mary W. Stewart & Robert B. Simmonds --
What is next in the study of new religions? / Charles Y. Glock --
Integrative and transformative religions / Barbara Hargrove --
Emergent religion in America: an historical perspective / Robert S. Ellwood --
Language and mind in the study of new religious movements / George Baker.

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