TY - BOOK ID - 84354576 TI - The Cambridge companion to new religious movements AU - Hammer, Olav AU - Rothstein, Mikael PY - 2012 SN - 9780521145657 9780521196505 9781139022651 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Cults KW - 298.9 KW - Alternative religious movements KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Marginal religious movements KW - New religions KW - New religious movements KW - NRMs (Religion) KW - Religious movements, Alternative KW - Religious movements, Marginal KW - Religious movements, New KW - Religions KW - Sects KW - 298.9 Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age KW - Recente niet-christelijke of afgeleid-christelijke religies; New Age KW - new religious movements KW - social science KW - the sociology of new religious movements KW - internet KW - controversies KW - the end of time KW - new religions KW - charismatic leaders KW - rituals KW - canonical texts KW - extracanonical texts KW - Scientology KW - Neopaganism KW - the Sathya Sai baba movement KW - Neo-Sufism KW - Satanism KW - Theosophy KW - the New Age KW - Jihadism KW - Russia KW - sub-Saharan Africa KW - the International Raƫlian Movement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84354576 AB - "New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years come to be treated in the same way as established religions, that is, as complex cultural phenomena involving myths, rituals and canonical texts. This Companion discusses key features of NRMs from a systematic, comparative perspective, summarizing results of forty years of research. The volume addresses NRMs that have caught media attention, including movements such as Scientology, New Age, the Neopagans, the Sai Baba movement and Jihadist movements active in a post-9/11 context. An essential resource for students of religious studies, the history of religion, sociology, anthropology and the psychology of religion"-- ER -