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001 2003021305
003 DLC
005 20061102082015.0
008 030925s2004 nyua b 001 0 eng
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245 00 $aNew religious movements in the twenty-first century :$blegal, political, and social challenges in global perspective /$cedited by Phillip Charles Lucas and Thomas Robbins.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2004.
300 $axi, 364 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. Alternative religions, the state, and the globe / Thomas Robbins -- pt. 1. Western Europe. General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain / Eileen Barker -- Religious minorities and new religious movements in Denmark / Armin W. Geertz and Mikael Rothstein -- France's obsession with the "sectarian threat" / Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- The secte response to religious discrimination : subversives, martyrs, or freedom fighters in the French sect wars? / Susan J. Palmer -- Italy's surprisingly favorable environment for religious minorities / Massimo Introvigne -- New religions in Germany : the publicity of the public square / Brigitte Schoen -- pt. 2. Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New religions in the new Russia / Marat Shterin -- New religious minorities in the Baltic States / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova -- Crushing Wahhabi fundamentalists in Central Asia and the Caucasus : subplot to the global struggle against Al Qa'ida or suppression of legitimate religious opposition? / Brian Glyn Williams -- pt. 3. Africa, Asia, and Australia. Prophets, "false prophets," and the African state : emergent issues of religious freedom and conflict / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Religion on a leash : NRMs and the limits of Chinese freedom / Scott Lowe -- Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shift and moral panic in the post-Aum era / Ian Reader -- New religions in Australia : public menace or societal salvation? / James T. Richardson --
505 0 $apt. 4. North and South Americas. The mainstreaming of alternative spirituality in Brazil / Robert T. Carpenter -- The fate of NRMs and their detractors in twenty-first century America / J. Gordon Melton -- New religions and the anticult movement in Canada / Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe -- pt. 5. Theoretical considerations. New religious movements and globalization / James A. Beckford -- Apocalypse 9/11 / John R. Hall -- Establishments and sects in the Islamic world / Mark Sedgwick -- Research on new religious movements in the post-9/11 world / Benjamin Zablocki and J. Anna Looney --Cults, porn, and hate : convergent discourses on First Amendment restriction / Thomas Robbin and Dick Anthony -- Conclusion. The future of new and minority religions in the twenty-first century : religious freedom under global siege / Philip Charles Lucas.
650 0 $aCults.
650 0 $aSects.
650 0 $aReligion and law.
650 0 $aReligion and state.
650 0 $aReligion and sociology.
650 0 $aReligions.
700 1 $aLucas, Phillip Charles.
700 1 $aRobbins, Thomas,$d1943-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003021305.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2003021305-d.html