Including both leading scholars and new voices from around the world, this Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the study of new religious movements in the contemporary global context. A burgeoning field within religious studies, chapters expand upon The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (2014), bringing together a wide range of experts in the field to offer methodological, theoretical, and topical consideration of new and alternative religions.The contributors cover various approaches to the study of new religious movements, such as fieldwork and media studies. George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller also provide a new detailed introduction explaining the history and major questions of the field, and situating readers new to the topic within the current significant research. The book provides fresh insights into the background of debates on problematic matters such as brainwashing and violence, as well as fundamental themes such as millennialism, prophecy, and the engagement with science. Contributors move beyond more limited studies that focus only on Europe and North America, by including regional coverage of movements in Asia and Africa.
| ISBN: | 9781350559356 |
| Publication date: | 12th November 2026 |
| Author: | George D Chryssides, Assistant Professor Benjamin E Zeller |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 576 pages |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Religion: general Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects |
Including both leading scholars and new voices from around the world, this Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the study of new religious movements in the contemporary global context. A burgeoning field within religious studies, chapters expand upon The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (2014), bringing together a wide range of experts in the field to offer methodological, theoretical, and topical consideration of new and alternative religions.The contributors cover various approaches to the study of new religious movements, such as fieldwork and media studies. George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller also provide a new detailed introduction explaining the history and major questions of the field, and situating readers new to the topic within the current significant research. The book provides fresh insights into the background of debates on problematic matters such as brainwashing and violence, as well as fundamental themes such as millennialism, prophecy, and the engagement with science. Contributors move beyond more limited studies that focus only on Europe and North America, by including regional coverage of movements in Asia and Africa.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of New Religious Movements features in the following genres: Religion: general, Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects
The Bloomsbury Handbook of New Religious Movements is available in Hardback
The Bloomsbury Handbook of New Religious Movements was written by George D Chryssides, Assistant Professor Benjamin E Zeller and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of New Religious Movements has 576 pages
Yes it is part of Bloomsbury Handbooks series
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