The Politics of Religious Apostasy
Subtitle: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements (Religion in the Age of Transformation)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: April 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780275955083
Subjects: Anthropology; Religion: general; Religion (Specific Aspects); Social Movements; Archaeology / Anthropology; Religion; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Sociology of Religion; Religion / General; Apostasy
First sentence: This book has as its subject one of the most dramatic roles that has emerged around the conflict between some new religious movements and the social orders in which they have emerged, the apostate.