Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion a…
Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion a…
Contains alphabetically-arranged profiles of over 1,000 different religions found in the United States and throughout the world.
I argue that of the many ways to examine Lebanese film, the best is through sect. Traditional categories and methods of textual analysis such as class, race, gender, psychoanalysis and semiotics can be used to read film, but sect can, as a new category of analysis, provide a far…