Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2481 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781608712427
Covers the significant religious denominations and movements that have originated or flourished in North America, from the beginning of European settlement to the present day.
Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780253346872
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
Author : Henri Gooren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319270777
This encyclopedia provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms. These main religions include (but are not limited to) the major expressions of Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses), indigenous religions (Native American, Maya religion), syncretic Christianity (including Afro-Brazilian religions like Umbanda and Candomblé and Afro-Caribbean religions like Vodun and Santería), other world religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam), transnational New Religious Movements (Scientology, Unification Church, Hare Krishna, New Age, etc.), and new local religions (Brazil’s Igreja Universal, La Luz del Mundo from Mexico, etc.).
Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761989561
As the new millennium approaches, the sacred and profane interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, it covers world religions, religious perspectives on political and social issues, and religious leaders and scholars -- present and past -- in the United States and the world. This comprehensive volume is an essential reference for studies in the anthropology, psychology, politics, and sociology of religion. Topics include: abortion, adolescence, African-American religious experience, anthropology of religion, Buddhism, commitment, conversion, definition of religion, ecology movement, Emile Durkheim, ethnicity, fundamentalism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, new religious movements, organization, parish, Talcott Parsons, racism, research methods, Roman Catholicism, sexism, Unification Church, Max Weber, and many others.
Author : Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614728658
Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1754 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2018
Category : REFERENCE
ISBN : 9780190456160
"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America brings together state-of-the-art scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on religion in America. The encyclopedia is organized around five key areas -- ethnicity; empire; space; religion in public life; and religious ideas -- and offers a robust overview of the history, role, and place of the many religious traditions that intersect in America"--
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1615927387
Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging and accessible resource on the historically significant and more obscure, sinister, and bizarre religious groups. Including many entries by scholarly specialists, this volume explains more than 1,000 diverse groups and movements, from such well-known sects as the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate, to obscure groups like Ordo Templi Satanas, Witches International, and the Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus. In addition to an exhaustive index and handy cross-references, the second edition includes over a hundred new topical entries on subjects relevant to understanding sectarian movements, from snake-handling and satanic ritual abuse to brainwashing and exorcism.This book, a must for all libraries and schools, will endure as the first and only point of reference for researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in fringe religious groups.
Author : Arlene B. Hirschfelder
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816046539
Describes traditional beliefs and worship practices, the consequences of contact with Europeans and other Americans, and the forms Native American religions take today.
Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2000-12-08
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Examines the history of religious practice and belief in the United States, covering a period that ranges over five hundred years, and includes over two hundred illustrations.
Author : Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1412936365
Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
