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New religious movements : a practical introduction
- Title
- New religious movements : a practical introduction / by Eileen Barker.
- Author
- Barker, Eileen, 1938-
- Publication
- London : H.M.S.O., 1989.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Great Britain. Home Office.
- Description
- xii, 234 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Led to write the book by a conviction that a great deal of unnecessary suffering has resulted from ignorance of the nature and characteristics of the current wave of new religious movements in the West. Discusses, among others, the Children of God, Church of Scientology, the Human Potential Movement, Rastafarianism, Unification Church, etc.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224)
- Credits (note)
- At head of title: Home Office.
- Contents
- Some characteristics of new religious movements -- Conversion or mind control? -- What do new religious movements offer potential converts? -- The new convert -- Areas of public concern -- Effects on the individual -- Personal relations and the family within the movements -- Separateness -- Effects on the 'outside family' -- Parents' reactions -- Forcible deprogramming -- A middle way -- Leaving a movement -- A wider awareness.
- ISBN
- 0113409273
- 9780113409273
- OCLC
- ocm20805774
- 20805774
- SCSB-1906976
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library