Alternative Religions
Subtitle: A Sociological Introduction
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780754634096
Subjects: Sociology; Sects; Religion; Social Science; Sociology of Religion; Comparative Religion; Alternative belief systems; Cultural studies; Non-Christian religions; Sociology, Social Studies; Cults; Christianity and other religio; Religion and sociology; Religions
First sentence: In seeking to describe, analyse, and explain the rise of the alternative religions there are two overlapping immediate problems that are closely associated with the matter of definition.