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African Independent Churches
Author_Irving Hexham
Author_Karla Poewe
Category=JHB
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comparative religion
Contemporary Religious Movements
cultural anthropology
Dave Hunt
Dispensation Movement
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folk belief systems
global new religious movements
Hare Krishna Movement
Helena Blavatsky
Isaiah Shembe
Karla Poewe
Local Folk Religions
Magnetic Fluid
myth creation processes
Mythological Fragment
Mythological Idioms
People's Temple
Personal Reorganization
Peter Caddy
Primal Experiences
religious syncretism
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Soka Gakkai
Solar Temple
Sukyo Mahikari
Sun Myung Moon
Supernatural Assumptions
technological influence religion
Trance Channeler
unification
Unification Church
Van Baalen
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367317010
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the face of the popular crusade to link new religious movements to dangerous cults, brainwashing, and the need for deprogramming, Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe argue that many cults are in fact the product of dynamic interaction between folk religions and the teachings of traditional world religions. With the widespread loss of belief in biblica
Irving Hexham is professor of religious studies and Karla Poewe is professor of anthropology, both at the University of Calgary.
