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Violence and new religious movements / edited by James R. Lewis.

Contributor(s): Lewis, James R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xii, 443 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199735631 (alk. paper); 0199735638 (alk. paper); 9780199735617 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0199735611 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Violence -- Religious aspects | Persecution | CultsDDC classification: 200.086/92 LOC classification: BL65.V55 | V55 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Deciphering the NRM-violence connection / David G. Bromley -- Minority religions and the context of violence : a conflict/interactionist perspective / James T. Richardson -- Reciprocal totalism : the toxic interdependence of anticult and cult violence / Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony -- Narratives of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom : violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown / Rebecca Moore -- Revisiting the Branch Davidian mass suicide debate / Stuart A. Wright -- Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple : a survey of hypotheses / Henrik Bogdan -- Religion and violence in Japan : the case of Aum Shinrikyo / Martin Repp -- The euphemization of violence : the case of Heaven's Gate / Benjamin E. Zeller -- "There will follow a new generation and a new earth" : from apocalyptic hopes to destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God / Jean-François Mayer --
Murder in Knutby : charisma, eroticism and violence in a Swedish Pentecostal community / Jonathan Peste -- Modern pagan warriors : violence and justice in Rodnoverie / Kaarina Aitamurto -- Ananda Marga, PROUT, and the use of force / Helen Crovetto -- Knocking on heaven's door : violence, charisma, and the transformation of New Vrindaban / E. Burke Rochford, Jr. -- The Nation of Islam and violence / Martha F. Lee -- Cultural capital, social networks, and collective violence at Rajneeshpuram / Marion S. Goldman -- "Strong as steel, steady as stone" : skirting pitfalls in 3HO/Sikh dharma / Constance Elsberg -- "Smite him hip and thigh" : satanism, violence, and transgression / Jesper Aagaard Petersen -- State-fostered violence against the Falun Gong in China / James T. Richardson and Bryan Edelman -- Deprogramming violence : the logic, perpetration, and outcomes of coercive intervention / Anson Shupe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Deciphering the NRM-violence connection / David G. Bromley -- Minority religions and the context of violence : a conflict/interactionist perspective / James T. Richardson -- Reciprocal totalism : the toxic interdependence of anticult and cult violence / Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony -- Narratives of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom : violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown / Rebecca Moore -- Revisiting the Branch Davidian mass suicide debate / Stuart A. Wright -- Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple : a survey of hypotheses / Henrik Bogdan -- Religion and violence in Japan : the case of Aum Shinrikyo / Martin Repp -- The euphemization of violence : the case of Heaven's Gate / Benjamin E. Zeller -- "There will follow a new generation and a new earth" : from apocalyptic hopes to destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God / Jean-François Mayer --

Murder in Knutby : charisma, eroticism and violence in a Swedish Pentecostal community / Jonathan Peste -- Modern pagan warriors : violence and justice in Rodnoverie / Kaarina Aitamurto -- Ananda Marga, PROUT, and the use of force / Helen Crovetto -- Knocking on heaven's door : violence, charisma, and the transformation of New Vrindaban / E. Burke Rochford, Jr. -- The Nation of Islam and violence / Martha F. Lee -- Cultural capital, social networks, and collective violence at Rajneeshpuram / Marion S. Goldman -- "Strong as steel, steady as stone" : skirting pitfalls in 3HO/Sikh dharma / Constance Elsberg -- "Smite him hip and thigh" : satanism, violence, and transgression / Jesper Aagaard Petersen -- State-fostered violence against the Falun Gong in China / James T. Richardson and Bryan Edelman -- Deprogramming violence : the logic, perpetration, and outcomes of coercive intervention / Anson Shupe.

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