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Benjamin E. Zeller
Shows that religious groups had several methods of creatively responding to science, and that the often-assumed conflict-based model of ‘science versus religion’ must be replaced by a more nuanced understanding…
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In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. The author explores…
By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven’s Gate, this book draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a…
This book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress…
This guide to new religious movements and their critical study brings together 29 world-class international scholars, and serves as a resource to students and researchers. The volume highlights the current…
Now available in paperback, The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements surveys key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality…
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Papers presented over four years at the Religion, Food, and Eating Seminar at the American Academy of Religion.
