TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,James R.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Legitimating new religions
AV  - BP603 .L49 2003eb
U1  - 200/.9/04 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Cults
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Psychology, Religious
KW  - Authority
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10075364
ER  -