America's Alternative ReligionsTimothy Miller This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternative religions, covering for each such essentials as history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. The chapters of the book were written by experts who study the movements they have written about. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Established Christian Alternatives | 11 |
THE ANABAPTISTS | 13 |
SYMBOL AND SIGN IN METHODIST HOLINESS AND PENTECOSTAL SPIRITUALITY | 23 |
THE ADVENTIST AND JEHOVAHS WITNESS BRANCH OF PROTESTANTISM | 33 |
THE LATTER DAY SAINT CHURCHES | 47 |
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND AMERICAN CULTURE | 61 |
ON THE VERGE THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN QUAKERISM | 69 |
GURDJlEFF IN AMERICA AN OVERVIEW | 259 |
SUBUD | 267 |
AfricanAmerican Freedom Movements | 275 |
BLACK JEWS AND BLACK MUSLIMS | 277 |
FATHER DIVINES PEACE MISSION MOVEMENT | 285 |
SANTERIA AND VODOU IN THE UNITED STATES | 291 |
THE RASTAFARI ABROAD | 297 |
PEOPLES TEMPLE | 303 |
SWEDENBORGIANISM | 77 |
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM AN INTERPRETATION THROUGH ITS HISTORY | 87 |
Contemporary Christian and Jewish Movements | 99 |
ROMAN CATHOLIC TRADITIONALISM | 101 |
HASIDISM AND ITS EFFECTS ON ALTERNATIVE JEWISH MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA | 109 |
GOD AND RACE BRITISHISRAELISM AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY | 119 |
THE CHILDREN OF GOD | 127 |
THE BOSTON CHURCH OF CHRIST | 133 |
FROM HOLY ORDER OF MANS TO CHRIST THE SAVIOR BROTHERHOOD THE RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AN ESOTERIC CHRIST... | 141 |
THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS A SOCIAL PROFILE AND ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY | 149 |
Religions from Asia | 159 |
BUDDHISM IN AMERICA THE DHARMA IN THE LAND OF THE RED MAN | 161 |
HINDUISM ARRIVES IN AMERICA THE VEDANTA MOVEMENT AND THE SELFREALIZATION FELLOWSHIP | 173 |
HINDU MOVEMENTS SINCE MIDCENTURY YOGIS IN THE STATES | 191 |
HARE KRISHNA IN AMERICA GROWTH DECLINE AND ACCOMMODATION | 215 |
THE UNIFICATION CHURCH | 223 |
Religions from the Middle East | 231 |
EXPRESSIONS OF ISLAM IN AMERICA | 233 |
THE AMERICAN BAHAI COMMUNITY IN THE NINETIES | 243 |
SUFISM IN AMERICA | 249 |
Ancient Wisdom and New Age Movements | 313 |
THEOSOPHY | 315 |
NEW THOUGHT AND THE HARMONIAL FAMILY | 325 |
SPIRITUALISM AND CHANNELING | 331 |
NEOPAGANISM AND WITCHCRAFT | 339 |
WHITHER THE NEW AGE? | 347 |
ECKANKAR FROM ANCIENT SCIENCE OF SOUL TRAVEL TO NEW AGE RELIGION | 363 |
THE EVOLUTION OF HIPPIE COMMUNAL SPIRITUALITY THE FARM AND OTHER HIPPIES WHO DIDNT GIVE UP | 371 |
And Many More | 379 |
NEW RELIGIONS AND AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGION | 381 |
THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY LIGHTNING ROD FOR CULTURAL BOUNDARY CONFLICTS | 385 |
UFO RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS | 393 |
SATANISM AND SATANIC CHURCHES THE CONTEMPORARY INCARNATIONS | 401 |
THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN AMERICAN ANTICULT IDEOLOGY A CASE STUDY IN FRAME EXTENSION | 411 |
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO ALTERNATIVE RELIGIONS | 417 |
CHRONOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVE RELIGIONS IN AMERICA AMERICAN FOUNDING DATES PLUS A FEW OTHER MAJOR EVENTS | 437 |
Contributors | 443 |
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Families and Communes: An Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles William Smith No preview available - 1999 |