New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, GB, 2024

1009014595 / 9781009014595

Series: Book 15 of 19 - Elements in New Religious Movements

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This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a sacrosanct canon. They focus their attention on material objects that can range from sacred buildings to objects from the natural world that are treated in ritualized fashion. The reason for this fundamental similarity between older and newer religions is briefly explored in terms of the cognitive processes that underlie religious concepts and practices. A final section returns to the issue of how such shared processes take specific shapes in the context of modern, Western societies.

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Title
New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
Author
Olav Hammer, Karen Swartz
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, GB
Publication year
2024
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New
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Paperback
Language
English
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1009014595
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9781009014595
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130 grams
Series
Book 15 of 19: Elements in New Religious Movements

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