New Religions in Global Perspective
Religious Change in the Modern World
By: Peter B. Clarke
Hardcover | 6 January 2006 | Edition Number 1
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'Peter Clarke provides us with an excellent contemporary theoretical account of the field and a comprehensive source of information on a plethora of religious groups... I strongly recommend it.' - Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney, Australia
'Peter Clarke provides us with an excellent contemporary theoretical account of the field and a comprehensive source of information on a plethora of religious groups... I strongly recommend it.' - Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney, Australia
'New Religions in Global Perspective is one of the best books on New Religious Movements (NRMs) since the beginning of the 21st century...Peter Clarke provides us with an excellent contemporary theoretical account of the field and a comprehensive source of information on a plethora of religious groups, and for this reason, I strongly recommend it. This book would be excellent as a textbook on NRMs for undergraduate and postgraduate students. For experts in the field, it offers a clear light on the most current debates in the field and covers so much across the globe, that any scholar wukk certainly find room to learn more.' -Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney
'Creemos que la presente obra, enciclopedica en su formato, con buena bibliografia anglosajona, puede ser de ayuda para destinarios muy diversos; estudiosos de las religiones actuales, politicos, pastores y sociologos; util, por su sistemizacion y contenido, para estudiantes universitarios que buscan conocer el momento actual del espectro religioso-espiritual del mundo.' Bibliographia Missionaria
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Global perspective, New Age and society's response | p. 1 |
New Religious Movements (NRMs): a global perspective | p. 3 |
Globalization as a new form of religion and/or spirituality | p. 6 |
The growing demand for spirituality | p. 7 |
Identifying 'new' religion globally | p. 9 |
Accounting for NRMs: rapid change or stagnation? | p. 16 |
Conclusion | p. 20 |
References and select bibliography | p. 21 |
The New Age Movement (NAM): alternative or mainstream? | p. 25 |
Historical overview | p. 27 |
NAM, the Holistic Health Movement and the Human Potential Movement | p. 31 |
Questioning the personal and social role of the NAM | p. 34 |
Some Buddhist and Christian responses to the NAM | p. 35 |
The NAM and traditional and/or indigenous religions: the Australian case | p. 38 |
Conclusions: the future of the New Age | p. 39 |
References and select bibliography | p. 40 |
Accounting for hostility to NRMs | p. 43 |
The history of the ACM | p. 45 |
NRMs and violence | p. 55 |
The brainwashing hypothesis and child abuse allegations | p. 57 |
Conclusions | p. 67 |
References and select bibliography | p. 67 |
New religions in the West | p. 71 |
Europe | p. 73 |
Religious change in modern Europe: some general comments | p. 74 |
A la carte Christianity and the growth of the unchurched but spiritual | p. 76 |
Toward a European Islam | p. 79 |
Islam: new developments and movements | p. 82 |
Buddhism and Europeanization | p. 87 |
New Buddhist communities and movements | p. 90 |
New Hindu and Sikh movements | p. 92 |
Modern 'secular' Yoga | p. 94 |
Neo-Paganism | p. 95 |
Influential thinkers and the new spiritualities: the case of Gurdjieff | p. 97 |
Conclusions: a changing paradigm | p. 102 |
References and select bibliography | p. 103 |
North America | p. 108 |
NRMs (c.1820-c.1950) | p. 111 |
Native American New Religions | p. 115 |
NRMs c.1950 to the present: anxiety in the midst of prosperity | p. 116 |
Ufology and Occultism | p. 119 |
Reclaiming as politically engaged Wicca/Witchcraft | p. 122 |
NRMs and September 11th 2001 | p. 123 |
New Christian and Christian-related movements and the expansion of Western interests | p. 124 |
'Americanized' and other 'new' forms of Buddhism | p. 126 |
Islam and new Islam-derived movements | p. 129 |
Judaism and new movements derived from Judaism | p. 133 |
Conclusions | p. 136 |
References and select bibliography | p. 137 |
Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia (New Guinea) | p. 141 |
Australia: the ending of the 'white only policy' and a new kind of religious diversity | p. 142 |
New Religions from East and South Asia | p. 145 |
Commodification | p. 148 |
New Zealand | p. 150 |
Maori new religions | p. 154 |
Melanesia and commodity millenarianism | p. 155 |
Conclusions | p. 159 |
References and select bibliography | p. 160 |
New religions: North Africa and the Middle East, and Africa, south of the Sahara | p. 163 |
North Africa and the Middle East | p. 165 |
Modernization and Islamic exceptionalism | p. 167 |
Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood and the creation of an Islamic state | p. 169 |
The influence of Sayyid Quth (1906-66) | p. 174 |
The Brotherhood's idea of an Islamic state | p. 176 |
Hizb ut Tahir | p. 179 |
Al-Qaeda | p. 180 |
Gush Emunim (Block of the Faithful) | p. 183 |
Conclusions | p. 184 |
References and select bibliography | p. 184 |
Africa, south of the Sahara | p. 186 |
Colonialism and religious innovation | p. 186 |
AICs in West Africa (c.1890 to the present) | p. 188 |
AICs of South, Central and East Africa (from c.1890) | p. 195 |
Africa's new Charismatic and Evangelical movements | p. 199 |
Neo-traditional religions | p. 200 |
New Islam-related movements | p. 201 |
NRMs of Asian origin | p. 205 |
Conclusions | p. 206 |
References and select bibliography | p. 207 |
NRMs in South and Central America and the Caribbean | p. 209 |
South and Central America and the Caribbean | p. 211 |
Neo-Pentecostal churches | p. 213 |
Spiritist and esoteric NRMs in Brazil and Argentina | p. 215 |
Amerindian-Catholic spirituality and New Religions | p. 218 |
African-derived religions: Brazil | p. 220 |
African-derived religions: the Caribbean | p. 224 |
Japanese NRMs as the route to African roots | p. 230 |
Other Asian NRMs | p. 232 |
Conclusions | p. 233 |
References and select bibliography | p. 233 |
New religions of South, Southeast and East Asia | p. 237 |
South Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) | p. 239 |
Neo-Hindu movements | p. 241 |
Islamic new movements in India and Pakistan | p. 256 |
New Sikh-related movements | p. 263 |
New Buddhist movements | p. 264 |
Sri Lanka's 'Protestant Buddhism' | p. 266 |
Conclusions | p. 268 |
References and select bibliography | p. 269 |
Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia) | p. 271 |
Thailand's reformed Buddhism | p. 272 |
Vietnam: Engaged Buddhism | p. 278 |
The American/Vietnam War and Engaged Buddhism | p. 280 |
The Cao Dai and Hoa Hao movements | p. 281 |
Indonesia | p. 285 |
The construction of 'theistic' Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism | p. 286 |
Varieties of Islam | p. 288 |
Resurgent Sufism and modernist and neo-modernist Islam | p. 290 |
SUBUD | p. 291 |
Conclusions | p. 293 |
References and select bibliography | p. 294 |
East Asia (1): Japanese NRMs | p. 296 |
New religion | p. 297 |
Japanese NRMs and the religious past | p. 298 |
Goals of the New Religions | p. 301 |
Accounting for the rise and decline of Japanese NRMs | p. 304 |
Engaged spirituality | p. 306 |
Japan's Christian NRMs | p. 307 |
Japanese NRMs abroad | p. 309 |
Aum Shinrikyo: the path to violence | p. 310 |
Conclusions | p. 316 |
References and select bibliography | p. 316 |
East Asia (2): NRMs in China, Taiwan and Korea | p. 319 |
Governments and religion in China | p. 320 |
The religious landscape of China and Taiwan | p. 321 |
New Religions in China and Taiwan: world transformation as self-transformation | p. 326 |
From Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) to Tian Dao (The Way) | p. 327 |
Foguangshan | p. 329 |
Buddhist Compassion Relief (Tzu Chi) | p. 331 |
Falun Gong | p. 332 |
Qigong and Chinese martial arts outside China | p. 336 |
Chinese Christian NRMs | p. 337 |
Korea | p. 337 |
Korea's NRMs | p. 339 |
Tonghak/Ch'ondogyo | p. 339 |
Unification Church (UC) (T'ongil-gyo) | p. 342 |
Won Buddhism | p. 346 |
Conclusions | p. 348 |
References and select bibliography | p. 349 |
Conclusion | p. 351 |
Future trends | p. 353 |
The distinguishing features of NRMs and of new forms of spirituality | p. 353 |
The future of NRMs, the new spirituality and/or congregational religion | p. 357 |
References and select bibliography | p. 359 |
General bibliography | p. 361 |
Index | p. 365 |
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ISBN: 9780415257473
ISBN-10: 0415257476
Published: 6th January 2006
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 408
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.39 x 15.6 x 2.39
Weight (kg): 0.75
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