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Toggle the cite modalA major, perhaps the major, focus of early research on New Religious Movements (NRMs) was on the people who joined. Most of the field's pioneer researchers were sociologists. However, the profile of NRM members had changed substantially by the twenty-first century -- changes largely missed because t... Read more
Published: 2014
Pages: 220
eBook: 9781781791073
James R. Lewis is Professor at the University of Troms0. His most recent books include Sacred Schisms (edited with Sarah Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 2009), Children of Jesus and Mary (with Nicolas Levine, Oxford University Press, 2010), Islamic Sects and Movements (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Modern Satanism (with Asbjorn Dyrendal and Jesper A. Petersen, Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and Introduction to New Religious Movements (with Danielle Kirby, Routledge, forthcoming). He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements.
'The book has an important contribution to make to the study of NRMs.' Helen A. Berger, Brandeis University
James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromso.