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Understanding the new religions / edited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Seabury Press, 1978.Description: xxi, 314 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0816404038 :
  • 0816421889
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200/.973
LOC classification:
  • BL2530.U6 U5
Contents:
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.
Item type: Books
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Judith Thomas Library General Stacks Books BL 2530 .U6 U5 1978 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA013723 Available AUA013723

"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.