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Legitimating new religions

by Lewis, James R.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Rutgers University Press, (New Brunswick, N.J. :) Physical details: viii, 272 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Cults -- Psychology. | Psychology, Religious. | Authority -- Religious aspects. | Electronic books.
Year: 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.

Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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