The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements both covers the current state of the field and breaks new ground. Its contributors, drawn form both sociology and religious studies, are leading figures in the study of NRMs.
Occult and esoteric ideas became deeply embedded in Russian culture long before the Bolshevik Revolution. After the Revolution, occult ideas were manifested in literature, the humanities and the sciences as well. Although the Soviet government discouraged and eventually prohibit…
The world's religions
Novi relihiĭni techiï: ukraïnsʹkyĭ kontekst : ohli︠a︡d, dokumenty, perekla…
by Instytut filosofiï NAN Ukraïny im. H. Skovorody., Viddilenni︠a︡ relihii︠e︡znavstva, Dudar, Nadii︠a︡, Fylypovych, L. O., (Li︠u︡dmyla Oleksandrivna), Ukraïnsʹkyĭ instytut sot︠s︡ialʹnykh doslidz︠h︡enʹ, Ukraïnsʹka asot︠s︡iat︠s︡ii︠a︡ relihii︠e︡znavt︠s︡iv., T︠S︡entr relihiĭnoï informat︠s︡iï ta svobody
Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix"" writing i…