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Violence and New Religious Movements
Edited by James R. Lewis
456 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-973561-7
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Paperback
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16 June 2011
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- Includes study of a wide variety of different groups, including but not limited to Jonestown, Branch Davidians, Solar Temple, AUM Shinrikyo and Heavens Gate
- Examines the phenomenon of violence against New Religious Movements
The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest—an interest heavily fueled by multiple incidents of mass violence involving certain groups. Some of these incidents have made international headlines. When New Religious Movements make the news, it's usually because of some violent episode. Some of the most famous NRMs are known much more for the violent way they came to an end than for anything else. Violence and New Religious Movements offers a comprehensive examination of violence by-and against-new religious movements. The book begins with theoretical essays on the relationship
between violence and NRMs and then moves on to examine particular groups. There are essays on the "Big Five"—the most well-known cases of violent incidents involving NRMs: Jonestown, Waco, Solar Temple, the Aum Shunrikyo subway attack, and the Heaven's Gate suicides. But the book also provides a richer survey by examining a host of lesser-known groups. This volume is the culmination of decades of research by scholars of New Religious Movements.Readership: Scholars and students of religious history, sociology
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Edited by James R. Lewis, Associate Professor of History and Religion, University of Tromso, Norway James R. Lewis is an extensively published scholar of new religious movements. He currently teaches in the History and Religious Studies Department of the University of Tromsø in Norway. His reference books have won New York Public Library, American Library Association, and Choice book awards. He has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and Meet the Press. Contributors:
Kaarina Altamurto, postgraduate student, Aleksanteri Institute at Helsinki
University; Dick Anthony, research and forensic psychologist; Steven Barrie-Anthony, Ph.D. student, University of California Santa Barbara; Henrik Bogdan, Professor of Religion, Göteborg University, Sweden; David G. Bromley, Professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University; Helen Crovetto, Independent Scholar of New Religious Movements within Hindu Tantrism; Edelman, Senior Trial Consultant, Jury Research Institute, Northern California; Constance Elsberg, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Northern Virginia Community College; Marion S. Goldman, Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, University of Oregon; Martha F. Lee, Associate Professor of Political Science and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Religion and Conflict, University of Windsor, Canada; James R. Lewis,
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tromso, Norway; Jean-François Mayer, Director of Religioscope Institute,Fribourg, Switzerland; Rebecca Moore, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies, San Diego State University; Jonathan Peste, lecturer, Göteborg University; Jesper Aagaard Petersen, postgraduate student, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Martin Repp, Associate Director of the NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions, Kyoto; James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies, University of Nevada, Reno; Thomas Robbins, sociologist of religion; E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Professor of Sociology and Religion, Middlebury College; Anson Shupe, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University and Purdue University;
Stuart A. Wright, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies & Research and Professor of Sociology, Lamar University.; Benjamin Zeller, Assistant Professor of Religion, Brevard College
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Introduction
I. THEORIZING NRM VIOLENCE
1. Deciphering the NRM-Violence Connection David G. Bromley
2. Minority Religions and the Context of Violence: A Conflict/Interactionist Perspective James T. Richardson
3. Reciprocal Totalism: The Toxic Interdependence of Anticult and Cult Violence Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony
II. THE <"BIG FIVE>" (PLUS ONE)
4. Narratives of Persecution, Suffering, and Martyrdom: Violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown Rebecca Moore
5. Revisiting the Branch Davidian Mass Suicide Debate Stuart A. Wright
6. Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple: A survey of hypothesises Henrik Bogdan
7. Religion and Violence in Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo Martin Repp
8. The Euphemization of Violence: The Case of Heaven's Gate Benjamin Zeller
9. <"There will follow a new generation and a New Earth>": From Apocalyptic Hopes to Destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
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