New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion by Olav Hammer
This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a sacrosanct canon. They focus their attention on material objects that can range from sacred buildings to objects from the natural world that are treated in ritualized fashion. The reason for this fundamental similarity between older and newer religions is briefly explored in terms of the cognitive processes that underlie religious concepts and practices. A final section returns to the issue of how such shared processes take specific shapes in the context of modern, Western societies.-
The Transcendental Meditation Movement
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QAnon
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Slavic Native Faith
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New Religious Movements in Islam
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Minority Religions, the Law, and the Courts
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Youth Culture and Religion in Twenty-First Century Japan
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Early Twentieth Century New Black Religious Movements in the United States
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Jehovah's Witnesses
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Mormonism
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Wearing Their Faith
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Communal Societies and New Religious Movements
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The Sacred Force of Star Wars Jedi
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Anticultism in France
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Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
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Brainwashing
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Fieldwork in New Religious Movements
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L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies
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Korean New Religions
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Abuse in New Religious Movements
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New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity
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The Revelation Spiritual Home
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J. Krishnamurti
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Santa Muerte Devotion
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Making Places Sacred
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The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
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Children in New Religious Movements
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Hare Krishna in the Twenty-First Century
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Satanism
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Black Hebrew Israelites
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The New Witches of the West
Hammer, Olav: - Olav Hammer is Professor, History of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark. He is co-editor with James R. Lewis of The Invention of Sacred Tradition (2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009500746 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009500740 |
| Title | New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion |
| Author | Olav Hammer |
| Series | Elements In New Religious Movements |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2024-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
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