About the book:
All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; Jediism; various manifestations of Paganism; LGBT Muslim groups; the Plymouth Brethren; Santa Muerte; and Satanism.
As with other books in the Routledge/Inform series, the contributors approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives: professional scholars include legal experts and sociologists specialising in new religious movements, but there are also chapters from those who have experienced a personal involvement. The volume is divided into four thematic parts that focus on different impetuses for radical change: interactions with society, technology and institutions, efforts at legitimation, and new revelations.
This book will be a useful source of information for social scientists, historians, theologians and other scholars with an interest in social change, minority religions and ‘cults’. It will also be of interest to a wider readership including lawyers, journalists, theologians and members of the general public.
Respondents will include:
- Professor Emeritus James A. Beckford, University of Warwick
- Michael Langone, Executive Director, International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), USA
- Professor Linda Woodhead, King’s College London
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For more information on "Radical Transformations in Minority Religions":
Table of Contents
Part One: Internal Forces Leading to Radical Changes
- Radical Changes in Minority Religions: Reflections - Beth Singler
- What Did They Do About It? A Sociological Perspective on Reactions to Child Sexual Abuse in Three New Religions - Eileen Barker
- Children of Heimdall: Ásatrú Ideas of Ancestry - Karl E. H. Seigfried
- Varieties of Enlightenment: Revisions in the EnlightenNext Movement around Andrew Cohen - André Van Der Braak
- "Not all Druids wear robes" - Countercultural Experiences of Youth and the Revision of Ritual in British Druidry - Jonathan Woolley
- Santo Daime: Work in Progress - Andrew Dawson
- A Song of Wood and Water: The Ecofeminist Turn in 1970s-1980s British Paganism - Shai Feraro
- When Galaxies Collide: The Question of Jediism’s Revisionism in the Face of Corporate Buyouts and Mythos ‘Retconning’ - Beth Singler
- Regulating Religious Diversification: A Legal Perspective - Frank Cranmer And Russell Sandberg
- Revision or Re-Branding? The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in Australia under Bruce D. Hales 2002-2016 - Bernard Doherty And Laura Dyason
- Appendix to Revision or Re-Branding? The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church 2002-2016 - PBCC
- Diversification in Samael Aun Weor’s Gnostic Movement - David G. Robertson
- Using the New Religious Movements Framework to Consider LGBT Muslim Groups - Shanon Shah
- Digital Revisionism: The Aftermath of the Family International’s Reboot - Claire Borowik
- The Mexican Santa Muerte from Tepito to Tultitlán: Tradition, Innovation and Syncretism at Enriqueta Vargas’ Temple - Stefano Bigliardi, Fabrizio Lorusso, And Stefano Morrone
- From the Church of Satan to the Temple of Set: Revisionism in the Satanic Milieu - Eugene V. Gallagher
- The ‘Messenger’ as Source of Both Stabilization and Revisionism in Church Universal and Triumphant and Related Groups - Erin Prophet
Part Two: Technology and Institutions as Drivers of Change
Part Three: Change as a Part of a Process of Legitimation
Part Four: New Prophecies or Revelations
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