Teaching New Religious Movements

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I Orienting Perspectives in Teaching New Religious Movements Introducing and Defining the Concept of a New Religion, 29 J. Gordon Melton Disciplinary Perspectives on New Religious Movements: Views from the Humanities and Social Sciences, 41 John A. Saliba Methodological Issues in the Study of New Religious Movements, 65 David G. Bromley New Religious Movements, Countermovements,Moral Panics, and the Media, 91 James T. Richardson and Massimo Introvigne PART II Central Issues in Teaching New Religious Movements The Meaning and Significance of New Religious Movements, 115 Lome L. Dawson Deliberate Heresies: New Religious Myths and Rituals as Critiques, 135 Susan J. Palmer and David G. Bromley Social Building Blocks of New Religious Movements: Organization and Leadership, 159 E Burke Rochford Jr. The Dynamics of Movement Membership: Joining and Leaving New Religious Movements, Stuart A. Wright Gender in New Religions, 211 Sarah M. Pike Abuse in New Religious Movements: Challenges for the Sociology of Religion, 231 Janet Jacobs New Religious Movements and Violence, 245 Thomas Robbins and John R. Hall PART III Resources for Teaching New Religious Movements Responding to Resistance in Teaching about New Religious Movements, 273 Eugene V. Gallagher Teaching New Religious Movements on the World Wide Web, 291 Douglas E. Cowan Charting the Information Field: Cult-Watching Groups and the Construction of Images of New Religious Movements, 309 Eileen Barker New Religious Movements: A Bibliographic Essay, 331 William Sims Bainbridge