"Looking back for precursors to the postwar relationship of new religions and media, Benjamin Dorman explores the significant role that the Japanese media traditionally played in defining appropriate and acceptable social behavior, acting at times as mouthpieces for government a…
Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyōsō) of Jiu and Tenshō Kōtai Jingū Kyō, two new religions of Japan's immediate postwar period that received substantial press attention. Jiu was lin…
This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore…
"This book is an introduction to the theological systems of six "new" religions--Mormonism, Christian Science, Theosophy, the Unification Church, Scientology, and the New Age movement. Organized as a series of theological conversations about ultimate questions, it offers a guide…
"This book is an introduction to the theological systems of six "new" religions--Mormonism, Christian Science, Theosophy, the Unification Church, Scientology, and the New Age movement. Organized as a series of theological conversations about ultimate questions, it offers a guide…
Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their co…
