ISBN:
0813533244
,
0813533236
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 272 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
200.904
Keywords:
Cults Psychology
;
Psychology, Religious
;
Authority Religious aspects
;
Neue Religion
;
Religionspsychologie
;
Neue Religion
;
Religionspsychologie
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003005987.html
