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Cults. --- Sects. --- Religions. --- Religion and sociology. --- Christianity and other religions. --- Cultes --- Sectes --- Religions --- Sociologie religieuse --- Christianisme --- Relations --- 298 --- 298.9 --- 289 --- 316:2 --- Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Religions, Modern --- Cults --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Sects --- Niet-christelijke Europese godsdiensten --- Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- Andere christelijke sekten --- Godsdienstsociologie --- History --- 316:2 Godsdienstsociologie --- 298.9 Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age --- Religion and sociology --- alternative religions --- the post-Christian society --- beliefs, practices and significance of alternative religions --- public and legal controversies --- secularisation, post-modernity, religion, healing, human potential --- changes in global culture --- Christian fundamentalism --- neo-paganism --- new religious movements (NRM) --- Pentecostalism

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Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion and race, class, gender, and region. Virtually always, the dramatic, dynamic history of alternative religions runs parallel to that of dissent in America. Communities of Dissent is an evenhanded and marvelously lively history of New Religious Movements in America. Stephen J. Stein describes the evolution and structure of alternative religious movements from both sides: the critics and the religious dissenters themselves. Providing a fascinating look at a wide range of New Religious Movements, he investigates obscure groups such as the 19th-century Vermont Pilgrims, who wore bearskins and refused to bathe or cut their hair, alongside better-known alternative believers, including colonial America's largest outsider faith, the Quakers; 17th- and 18th-century Mennonites, Amish, and Shakers; and the Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Black Muslims, and Scientologists of today. Accessible and comprehensive, Communities of Dissent also covers the milestones in the history of alternative American religions, from the infamous Salem witch trials and mass suicide/murder at Jonestown to the positive ways in which alternative religions have affected racial relations, the empowerment of women, and American culture in general.

Cults --- Sects --- Denominations, Religious --- Religions, Modern --- Religious denominations --- Religions --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- History. --- United States --- Religion. --- History --- Religion --- Cults - United States - History --- Sects - United States - History --- United States - Religion --- popular religion --- peace movements --- Colonial America --- Apocalyptic traditions --- healers --- Occultists --- sectarians --- 20th century sects --- 20th century cults --- Alternative religions in America

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From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities.

English language --- Race in literature. --- Ethnic relations in literature. --- Germanic peoples in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Kinship in literature. --- Germanic languages --- History and criticism. --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Ethnic relations --- History --- Race relations --- English literature --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- History and criticism --- Race in literature --- Germanic peoples in literature --- Race relations in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Kinship in literature --- To 1500

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Modern state education was essentially formed around the needs and interests of the middle class. The middle classes are currently very much at the centre of all politicians' electoral concerns. Nevertheless sociological and educational research has tended to neglect the middle class. Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education. Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis around the key concepts of social closure, social capital, values and principles and risk, while bringing a broad range of up-to date sociological theory to bear upon his subject. From this thorough analysis, valuable and thought-provoking insights into the assiduous care and considerable effort and expenditure which goes into ensuring the educational success of the middle class child, emerge. The middle classes are a sociological enigma, presenting the social researcher with considerable analytic and theoretical difficulties. Class Strategies and the Education Market provides a set of working tools for class analysis and the examination of class practices. Above all, it offers new ways of thinking about class theory and the relationships between classes in late modern society.

School choice --- Social classes --- Education --- Choice of school --- Parents' choice of school --- School, Choice of --- Schools --- Social aspects --- Selection --- School choice - Great Britain --- Social classes - Great Britain --- Education - Great Britain - Social aspects

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