New Religions: A Guide
Subtitle: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities
Contributors: J. Gordon Melton (Foreword); Christopher Partridge (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 6, 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780195220421
Subjects: Religion; Religious Studies
First sentence: It has become a truism in religious studies that we in the West now live in a condition of extreme religious pluralism.
Notes: First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Lion Publishing.
Table of contents: pagenum: 6
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title: How to Use This Book; pagenum: 7
title: Detailed Contents and Chronology; pagenum: 10
title: Foreword; pagenum: 14
title: Introduction; pagenum: 25
title: Christianity; pagenum: 103
title: Judaism; pagenum: 123
title: Islam; pagenum: 145
title: Zoroastrianism; pagenum: 157
title: Indian Religions; pagenum: 211
title: The Religions of East Asia; pagenum: 267
title: Indigenous and Pagan Traditions; pagenum: 303
title: Western Esoteric and New Age Traditions; pagenum: 357
title: Modern Western Cultures; pagenum: 419
title: List of Contributors; pagenum: 424
title: Select Bibliography; pagenum: 425
title: Index; pagenum: 445
title: Acknowledgments; pagenum: 446
title: Picture Acknowledgments