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Legitimating New Religions

Legitimating New Religions

Author: James R. Lewis

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 0813533244

Category: Religion

Page: 272

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James R. Lewis has written the first book to deal explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. He contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion, and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. Mainstream society's acknowledgement of a religion as legitimate means recognizing its status as a genuine religion and thus recognizing its right to exist. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies Lewis explores the diversification of legitimation strategies of new religions as well the tactics that their critics use to de-legitimate such groups. Cases include the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, Native American prophet religions, spiritualism, the Church of Christ-Scientist, Scientology, Church of Satan, Heaven's Gate, Unitarianism, Hindu reform movements, and Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect. Since many of the issues raised with respect to newer religions can be extended to the legitimation strategies deployed by established religions, this book sheds an intriguing new light on classic questions about the origin of all religions.
Legitimating New Religions
Language: en
Pages: 272

Legitimating New Religions

Authors: James R. Lewis
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

James R. Lewis has written the first book to deal explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. He contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion, and appeasing government authorities.
Contours of Relationship
Language: en
Pages: 160

Contours of Relationship

Authors: Kingshuk Chatterjee
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge

The book examines the contours of relationship between India and the Middle East, before the political frontiers of the both the regions were fashioned in the middle of the twentieth century. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
Language: en
Pages: 112

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

Authors: Nicolas Notovitch
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-07 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

A visitor to a Tibetan monastery in the 1890s discovered this intriguing, controversial account of Christ's life from the ages of 13 to 29, when Jesus reputedly studied in Asia among Buddhists.
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
Language: en
Pages: 112

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

Authors: Nicolas Notovitch
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-04 - Publisher:

2016 Reprint of 1907 Edition. In this work, originally published in 1894, the Russian explorer Notovitch claimed that during the time when Jesus'whereabouts are unknown, Jesus in fact left Galilee for India and studied with Buddhists and Hindus there before returning to Judea. Notovitch's claim was based on a document
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
Language: en
Pages: 128

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

Authors: Nicolas Notovitch
Categories: Christianity and other religions
Type: BOOK - Published: 1894 - Publisher:

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