New Religious Movements
Subtitle: Challenge and Response
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780415200493
First sentence: New Religious Movements (NRMs) are today a world-wide phenomenon, but the current wave of such movements, which became visible in the West after the Second World War, differs from the vast majority of previous waves in that the movements arise not only within the Judaeo-Christian tradition, but also from other traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Shintoism, and Paganism) and from more recent philosophies or ideologies, such as psychoanalysis and science fiction.