Legitimating new religions [electronic resource] / James R. Lewis.
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.Description: viii, 272 p. : illISBN:- 0813533236 (alk. paper)
- 0813533244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 200/.9/04 21
- BP603 .L49 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index.
Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.