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Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Sects and Society written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religious Sects written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Tibbott
Publisher : Zest Books ™
ISBN 13 : 154158192X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Members Only written by Julie Tibbott and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, people have banded together to pass on traditions, climb the social ladder, and often just have a good time. And sometimes, keeping other people out is part of the fun. (Every hot club needs a velvet rope, after all.) But some of these groups have proved so exclusive and secretive that we on the outside can't resist some speculation. Wouldn't you like to know what they're really up to? No need for secret handshakes or passwords—Members Only is your all-access guide to the secret societies, clandestine cults, and exclusive associations that you've always wondered about.
Author : Marc Petrowsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390827
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities written by Marc Petrowsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American society is culturally diverse with a variety of religious denominations, sects, cults, and self-help groups vying for members. This volume analyzes nine of these groups, chosen both for their intrinsic interest and because they illustrate a variety of sociological concepts. The groups included in this study are: Heaven's Gate, Jesus People USA, the Love Family, The Farm, Amish Women, Scientology, El Niño Fidencio, Santería, and Freedom Park. The contributors are social scientists with first-hand knowledge of the groups they examine.
Author : Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847011071
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Sects & Social Disorder written by Abdul Raufu Mustapha and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian (for which, see the companion volume, Creed and Grievance), with consequences for long-term peacemaking
Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832143
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Sex, Sects and Society written by Russell Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extended account of national identity, this companion volume to People, Places and Passions provides the first detailed study of the sexual and spiritual life of Wales in the period 1870–1945. The author argues that whilst Wales and its people experienced a disenchantment of the spiritual world, a revolution in sexual life was taking place. This innovative study examines how advances in life expectancy and improvements in health were reflected in emotional life. In contrast to the traditional emphasis upon hardship and hardscrabble experiences, this fascinating and beautifully written volume shows that the Welsh were also a free and fun-loving people.
Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758126450
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Sects and Society written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David V. Barrett
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780713727562
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions written by David V. Barrett and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "reveals the beliefs and practices of many modern sects and cults. It explains where they came from.
Author : John McKelvie Whitworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429678282
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book God's Blueprints written by John McKelvie Whitworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing the world with abhorrence, members of utopian sects isolate themselves from its influence. As this book, first published in 1975, shows, they seek to establish and promulgate radically distinctive forms of society according to what they claim to be God’s blueprint and which they believe are destined by his intervention and their example to spread throughout the world. Rooted in the sociology of religion and more particularly in the concepts of sectarianism and communitarianism, this study presents an analysis of three sects: the Shakers; the Oneida Community; and the Bruderhof. The author examines the origins, religious conceptions, social structure and composition, modes of social control, and development of each group; and in a concluding chapter he discusses the utopian sect as a distinctive social form.
Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sects and Society: a Sociological Study of Three Religious Groups in Britain written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Aldridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665144
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Religion in the Contemporary World written by Alan Aldridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try to combat real and imagined abuses and excess, regulating cults that brainwash vulnerable people, containing fundamentalism that threatens democracy and the progress of science, and identifying terrorists who threaten atrocities in the name of religion. The third edition has been carefully revised to make sure it is fully up to date with recent developments and debates. Major themes in the revised edition include the recently erupted ‘culture war’ between progressive secularists and conservative believers, the diverse manifestations of ‘fundamentalism’ and their impact on the wider society, new individual forms of religious expression in opposition to traditional structures of authority, and the backlash against ‘multiculturalism’ with its controversial implications for the social integration of ethnic and religious minority communities. Impressive in its scholarly analysis of a vibrant and challenging aspect of human societies, the third edition will appeal strongly to students taking courses in the sociology of religion and religious studies, as well as to everyone interested in the place of religion in the contemporary world.
Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383016307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the controversial social, political and religious issues that arise as religious sects seek to pursue a way of life at variance with that of other people, and which may bring them into conflict with outsiders and with the state.
Author : Louis Richard Binder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern Religious Cults and Society written by Louis Richard Binder and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198278832
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (788 download)
Download or read book The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1992 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging collection Bryan Wilson explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society. He examines the controversial social, political, and religious issues that arise as sects seek to pursue a way of life at variance with that of otherpeople, and which at times brings them into conflict with outsiders or with the state.
Author : Azmi Bishara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197650325
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Sectarianism without Sects written by Azmi Bishara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the transformation of social sectarianism into political sectarianism across the Arab world. Using a framework of social theories and socio-historical analysis, the book distinguishes between ta'ifa, or 'sect', and modern ta'ifiyya, 'sectarianism', arguing that sectarianism itself produces 'imaginary sects'. It charts and explains the evolution of these phenomena and their development in Arab and Islamic history, as distinct from other concepts used to study religious groups within Western contexts. Bishara documents the role played by internal and external factors and rivalries among political elites in the formulation of sectarian identity, citing both historical and contemporary models. He contends that sectarianism does not derive from sect, but rather that sectarianism resurrects the sect in the collective consciousness and reproduces it as an imagined community under modern political and historical conditions. Sectarianism without Sects is a vital resource for engaging with the sectarian crisis in the Arab world. It provides a detailed historical background to the emergence of sect in the region, as well as a complex theoretical exploration of how social identities have assumed political significance in the struggle for power over the state.
Author : Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Publisher : Western Africa
ISBN 13 : 1847011063
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Creed & Grievance written by Abdul Raufu Mustapha and published by Western Africa. This book was released on 2018 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.
Author : Stewart Davenport
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813947073
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Sex and Sects written by Stewart Davenport and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a revolution behind them, a continent before them, and the First Amendment protecting them, religio-sexual pioneers in antebellum America were free to strike out on their own, breaking with the orthodoxies of the past. Shakers followed the ascetic path; Oneida Perfectionists accepted sex as a gift from God; and Mormons redefined marriage in light of new religious revelations that also redefined God, humankind, spirit, and matter. Sex became a powerful way for each group to reinforce their sectarian identity as strangers in a strange land. Sex and Sects tells the story of these three religiously inspired sexual innovations in America: the celibate lifestyle of the Shakers, the Oneida Community’s system of controlled polyamory, and plural marriage as practiced by the Mormons. Stewart Davenport analyzes why these bold experiments rose and largely fell over the course of the nineteenth century within the confines of the new American republic. Moving beyond a social-scientific lens, Davenport traces for the first time their fascinating shared trajectory as they emerged, struggled, institutionalized, and declined in tandem—and sheds historical light on the way in which Americans have discussed, contested, and redefined the institutions of marriage and family both in our private lives and in the public realm.
