The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life

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  • Author : Roy Wallis
  • Release Date : 2019-03-19
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 253
  • ISBN 13 : 0429678401
  • File Size : 76,76 MB
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The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life by Roy Wallis PDF Summary

Book Description: This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became international, others remained local; in other ways, too, such as style, belief, organisation, they exhibit enormous diversity. The movements studied here are classified under three ideal types, world-rejecting, world-affirming and world-accommodating, and from here the author develops a theory of the origins, recruitment base, characteristics, and development patterns which they display. The book offers a critical exploration of the theories of the new religions and analyses the highly contentious issue of whether they reflect the process of secularisation, or whether they are a countervailing trend marking the resurgence of religion in the West.

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