The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    By James R. Lewis

    The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies. This Handbook covers the current state of the field and breaks new ground.

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    By James R. Lewis, Inga B. Tollefsen

    We address only the social science typological use here. From a social science perspective, cults differ from both churches/denominations and sects in several important ways. Cults are “culture writ small,” the product of either ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    By James R Lewis

    1998), available online at www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/ ufogruen.html; a slightly revised version is published in The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions, ed. J. Lewis (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    By James R. Lewis, Inga B. Tollefsen

    The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements both covers the current state of the field and breaks new ground. Its contributors, drawn form both sociology and religious studies, are leading figures in the study of NRMs.

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
    By James R. Lewis, Inga B. Tollefsen

    Wright, Stuart A., and Susan J. Palmer. 2015. Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious Communities. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 14 Conspiracy Theories and New Religious Movements Asbjørn Dyrendal Violence 197.