Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West : Proceedings of the 1981 Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Study GroupMercer University Press, 1983 - 347 pages |
Contents
| 1 | |
Second Thoughts on the Presumed Fragility of Unconventional Beliefs | 25 |
The Politics of Religious Movements | 45 |
A Broader View | 65 |
The Charismatic Renewal Movement and the Politics of Pentecostal Experience | 89 |
The New ReligiousPolitical Right in America | 109 |
The Moral Majority in the USA as a New Religious Movement | 127 |
The FunSeeking Movement in California | 147 |
The Social Construction of Religious Controversy | 195 |
Participation Rates in New Religious and Parareligious Movements | 215 |
Sectarian Experience in the Third Reich | 239 |
New Religious Movements and Mental Health | 255 |
Ideas of Social Responsibility in the Human Potential Movement | 265 |
Recruitment Strategies Ideology and Organization in the Hare Krishna Movement | 283 |
A Comment on Downton | 303 |
People Who Attend Unification Church Workshops and Do Not Become Members | 309 |
Esoteric New Religious Movements and the Western Esoteric Tradition | 165 |
A Comparison of AntiCult Movements in the United States and West Germany | 177 |
Contributors | 337 |
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Page 14 - Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ. for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call to Him.
Page 14 - Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?
Page 13 - Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; " where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you.
Page 14 - Repent and be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Page 13 - See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.