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New religious movements
a documentary reader
By Daschke, Dereck & Ashcraft, W. Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-81470-702-9
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. ; New York University Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2005
Anthropologists have referred to humankind as Homo religiousus (literally, "religious man") or the God-intoxicated ape. The pervasiveness of relativism, postmodernism, pluralism, and materialism has neither quelled nor quenched humanity's transcendental leanings and yearnings. The evidence? The rise and proliferation of New Religious Movements (NRMs), once pejoratively referred to as cults. Today's religious landscape has become a spiritual smorgasbord, and here's a sampling of the menu: Wicca,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
