02697cam a2200277 i 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100017000720200045000890400025001340430012001590500018001710820013001892450083002022600038002853000026003235000024003495040051003735050014004245051872004386500026023106510035023367000022023717000026023932737178AUA.120151116102748.0780710s1978 nyu b 000 0 eng  a 78014997  a0816404038 :c$17.50.a0816421889c$6.95 aDLCcDLCdOCoLCdDLC an-us---00aBL2530.U6bU500a200/.97300aUnderstanding the new religions /cedited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. aNew York :bSeabury Press,c1978. axxi, 314 p. ;c24 cm. a"A Crossroad book." aIncludes bibliographical references and index. aContents: a 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. 0aCultszUnited States. 0aUnited StatesxReligiony1945-1 aNeedleman, Jacob.1 aBaker, George,d1941-