Bloomsbury Handbook of New Religious Movements
Bloomsbury Handbook of New Religious Movements
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Description
Including both leading scholars and new voices from around the world, this Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the study of new religious movements in the contemporary global context. A burgeoning field within religious studies, chapters expand upon The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (2014), bringing together a wide range of experts in the field to offer methodological, theoretical, and topical consideration of new and alternative religions.
The contributors cover various approaches to the study of new religious movements, such as fieldwork and media studies. George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller also provide a new detailed introduction explaining the history and major questions of the field, and situating readers new to the topic within the current significant research.
The book provides fresh insights into the background of debates on problematic matters such as brainwashing and violence, as well as fundamental themes such as millennialism, prophecy, and the engagement with science. Contributors move beyond more limited studies that focus only on Europe and North America, by including regional coverage of movements in Asia and Africa.
Table of Contents
George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK) and Benjamin E. Zeller (Lake Forest College, USA)
Part 1: Methods and Theoretical Issues
1. Fieldwork, Stephen E. Gregg (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
2. Insider/Outsider Problems, George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK)
3. Material Culture, Amy R. Whitehead (Massey University, New Zealand)
4. Media Studies, Aled Thomas (University of Leeds, UK)
5. Vernacular/Lived Religion, Marion Bowman (The Open University, UK)
Part 2: Traditions and Regions
6. Pagan Movements, Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity University, UK)
7. New Age Religions, Steven Sutcliffe (University of Edinburgh, UK)
8. UFO Groups, Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK)
9. Western Esotericism, author to be determined
10. Invented Religions, Carole Cusack (University of Sydney, Australia)
11. Old New Religions, Jeremy Rapport (College of Wooster, USA)
12. Cyberreligions, Adam Possamai (Western Sydney University, Australia)
13. African New Religious Movements, Afe Adogame (Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)
14. Korean New Religious Movements, David Kim (Australian National University, Australia)
15. Japanese New Religious Movements, Yuri Inose (Ryukoku University, Japan)
16. Chinese New Religious Movements, Fiona Hsin-Fang Chang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
17. Islamic New Religious Movements, Fathie Ali Abdat (Ministry of Education, Singapore)
Part 3: Themes and Topics
18. Jonestown and the Study of NRMs, Rebecca Moore (San Diego State University, USA)
19. Conversion and Brainwashing, James T. Richardson (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
20. Charisma and Leadership, David G. Bromley (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
21. Prophecy, Jon R. Stone (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
22. Millennialism, Catherine Wessinger (Loyola University New Orleans, USA)
23. Violence, James R. Lewis† and Benjamin E. Zeller (Lake Forest College, USA)
24. Opposition to NRMs, George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK) and Benjamin E. Zeller (Lake Forest College, USA)
25. Legal Issues, Anthony Bradney (Keele University, UK)
26. Science, Stefano Bigliardi (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco), Adam Chin (Clovis Community College, USA) and; Benjamin E. Zeller (Lake Forest College, USA)
27. Race and Ethnicity, Marie W. Dallam (University of Oklahoma, USA)
28. Gender and Sexuality, Megan Goodwin (Bardo Institute, USA)
29. Children/Generational Issues, Sanja Nilsson (Dalarna University, Sweden)
30. Healing, Holly Folk (Western Washington University, USA)
31. Entheogens and Drugs, Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK)
Product details
| Published | Oct 15 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 528 |
| ISBN | 9781350559363 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 15 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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