Cults, Religion, and Violence
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0521668980
ISBN 13
9780521668989
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Pages
270
Description
Contrary to conventional wisdom, violent episodes involving cults are rare historically. But their potential to affect and disrupt civic life looms large and efforts to manage these incidents involve controversial issues of religious freedom, politics, state intervention, and public security. The interpretive challenge of this book is to provide a social scientific explanation for these rare events. The authors conclude that they usually involve some combination of internal and external dynamics through which a new religious movement and society become polarized. - from Amzon
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