Zaretsky / Leone Religious Movements in Contemporary America

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6884-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1844, 876 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaretsky, Irving I.

Leone, Mark P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. x
INTRODUCTION. The Common Foundation of Religious Diversity, pg. xvii
INTRODUCTION, pg. 3
The Legitimation of Marginal Religions in the United States, pg. 9
"The Law Knows No Heresy": Marginal Religious Movements and the Courts, pg. 27
INTRODUCTION, pg. 53
Uncovering Ritual Structures in Afro-American Music, pg. 60
The Psychology of the Spiritual Sermon, pg. 135
Ritualization: A Study in Texture and Texture Change, pg. 150
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches, pg. 166
INTRODUCTION, pg. 223
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Altered States of Consciousness, pg. 228
Prognosis: A New Religion?, pg. 244
Cocoon Work: An Interpretation of the Concern of Contemporary Youth with the Mystical, pg. 255
INTRODUCTION, pg. 275
Ritual, Release, and Orientation: Maintenance of the Self in the Antinomian Personality, pg. 283
Sectarianism and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Controlled Comparison of Puerto Rican Pentecostals and Catholics, pg. 298
Spiritualists and Shamans as Psychotherapists: An Account of Original Anthropological Sin, pg. 330
A Medium for Mental Health, pg. 338
Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism, pg. 355
Belief, Ritual, and Healing: New England Spiritualism and Mexican-American Spiritism Compared, pg. 383
Ideological Support for the Marginal Middle Class: Faith Healing and Glossolalia, pg. 418
INTRODUCTION, pg. 459
The Hare Krishna Movement, pg. 463
The Meher Baba Movement: Its Affect on Post-Adolescent Social Alienation, pg. 479
INTRODUCTION, pg. 515
Latter-Day Sense and Substance, pg. 519
Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction, and Occultism, pg. 547
INTRODUCTION, pg. 591
The Historical Study of Marginal American Religious Movements, pg. 596
Culture Crises and New Religious Movements: A Paradigmatic Statement of a Theory of Cults, pg. 612
Towards a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft, pg. 628
The Deprivation and Disorganization Theories of Social Movements, pg. 646
INTRODUCTION, pg. 665
Pentecostalism: Revolution or Counter-Revolution?, pg. 669
"Publish" or Perish: Negro Jehovah's Witness Adaptation in the Ghetto, pg. 700
The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion, pg. 722
CONCLUSION. Perspectives for Future Research, pg. 767
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 771
CONTRIBUTORS, pg. 815
INDEX, pg. 823