The Sociology of Religious Movements by William Sims Bainbridge

The Sociology of Religious Movements by William Sims Bainbridge

Explaining how religion and society transform each other, this book explores such movements as Holiness, Adventism, religious communes, Satanism, New Age and democratization. The Sociology of Religious Movements is the culmination of work begun in The Future of Religion (the 1986 award winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) and A Theory of Religion (1993 award winner of the Pacific Sociological Association). Explaining religious schism, innovation, and conversion to show how religion and society transform each other, this book explores such movements as: Holiness, Adventism, religious communes, Children of God, Satanism, New York City Mission Society, New Age, Asian imports, and democratization.

"I have already decided to assign this book as a text for my course in sociology of religion this yearThis indicates my esteem for this study. I will assign it because of its focus on religious movements as a species of social movements rather than on religion as collective episode, institution or collectivity." -- AnglicanTheological Review

William Sims Bainbridge

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ISBN 13	9780415912020
ISBN 10	0415912024
Title	The Sociology of Religious Movements
Author	William Sims Bainbridge
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1996-12-06
Number of pages	480
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