Violence and new religious movements / edited by James R. Lewis.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lewis, James R.
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Violence > Religious aspects.
Persecution.
Physical Description:xii, 443 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Deciphering the NRM-violence connection / David G. Bromley
  • Minority religions and the context of violence : a conflict/interactionist perspective / James T. Richardson
  • Reciprocal totalism : the toxic interdependence of anticult and cult violence / Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony
  • Narratives of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom : violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown / Rebecca Moore
  • Revisiting the Branch Davidian mass suicide debate / Stuart A. Wright
  • Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple : a survey of hypothesises / Henrik Bogdan
  • Religion and violence in Japan : the case of Aum Shinrikyo / Martin Repp
  • The euphemization of violence : the case of Heaven's Gate / Benjamin Zeller
  • "There will follow a new generation and a new earth" : from apocalyptic hopes to destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God / Jean-Francois Mayer
  • Murder in Knutby : charisma, eroticism and violence in a Swedish Pentecostal community / Jonathan Peste
  • Modern pagan warriors : violence and justice in Rodnoverie / Kaarina Altamurto
  • Ananda Marga, PROUT and the use of force / Helen Crovetto
  • Knocking on heaven's door : violence, charisma, and the transformation of New Vrindaban / Burke Rochford
  • The Nation of Islam and violence / Martha Lee
  • Cultural capital, social networks, and collective violence at Rajneeshpuram / Marion Goldman
  • "Strong as steel, steady as stone" : skirting pitfalls in 3HO/Sikh dharma / Constance Elsberg
  • "Smite him hip and thigh" : Satanism, violence, and transgression / Jesper Aagaard Petersen
  • State fostered violence against the Falun Gong in China / James T. Richardson and Bryan Edelman
  • Deprogramming violence : the logic, perpetration, and outcomes of coercive intervention / Anson Shupe.