Perspectives on New Religious MovementsBloomsbury Publishing, 2016. okt. 6. - 256 oldal This book provides a dispassionate analysis of new religious movements, charting their growth and examining them from a variety of perspectives – sociological, psychological, legal and theological. Saliba then questions whether or not membership harms those who join these new movements and assesses the charge that they 'brainwash' their adherents. |
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2 The history of new religious movements in the West | 37 |
3 The new religious movements in psychological perspective | 65 |
4 The new religious movements in sociological perspective | 105 |
5 The new religious movements in the law courts | 135 |
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