The future of religion : secularization, revival, and cult formation /
Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. St...
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Table of Contents:
- The nature of religion
- Of churches, sects, and cults
- The spectrum of faiths
- Religious regionalism
- The eternal exodus : causes of religious dissent and schism
- American-born sect movements
- Sect transformation and upward mobility : the missing mechanisms
- Three models of cult formation
- Cult movements in America : a reconnaissance
- Client and audience cults in America
- Cult membership in the roaring twenties
- Scientology : to be perfectly clear
- The rise and decline of transcendental meditation
- Networks of faith : interpersonal bonds and recruitment to cults and sects
- Friendship, religion, and the occult
- The arithmetic of social movements : theoretical implications
- The "consciousness reformation" reconsidered
- Who joins cult movements?
- Secularization, revival, and cult formation
- Church and cult in Canada
- Europe's receptivity to cults and sects
- Rebellion, repressive regimes, and religious movements.