ABSTRACT
New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first century. An introduction by Tom Robbins provides an overview of the major issues and themes discussed in the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|71 pages
Western Europe
chapter 4|13 pages
The Secte Response to Religious Discrimination
part 2|52 pages
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
chapter 9|20 pages
Crushing Wahhabi Fundamentalists in Central Asia and the Caucasus
part 3|62 pages
Africa, Asia, and Australia
chapter 10|28 pages
Prophets, “False Prophets,” and the African State
part 4|40 pages
North and South America
part 5|107 pages
Theoretical Considerations