Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult

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ISBN: 9780275974596

ISBN-10: 0275974596

ISBN-13: 9780275974596

Edition: 2003

Authors: Douglas E. Cowan

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From Hare Krishna to the Latter-Day Saints, and from Jehovah's Witnesses to the New Age, religious pluralism in North American presents evangelical Protestantism with significant challenges. Declaring newer religious groups "cults," "aberrant sects," and "heretical religions," the Christian countercult movement has warned that these groups represent a threat to society. In Bearing False Witness? Cowan considers the Christian countercult as a whole, locating it in sociological perspective as an entity distinct from the secular anti-cult. Through his analysis, the author argues that the primary purpose of the countercult movement is to reinforce and repair the Christian worldview when it…

Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Perspectives on the Christian Countercult



Confronting Cults



From Extraction to Migration: The Christian Countercult in Sociological Perspective



"For the Bible Tells Me So": Constructing the Countercult Cosmology



Definition and Counterdefinition: The Countercult as Reality-Maintenance



Typologizing the Countercult



A Territory under Siege: The Early Countercult in the Twentieth Century



Demon Siege: The Countercult on the Fringe



The Siege Continues: Modern Countercult Continua



The Siege in Cyberspace and the Democratization of the Countercult



Countercult Apologetics



From False Worlds to True, Part 1: Other Religions According to the Countercult



From False Worlds to True, Part 2: Cults, the Occult, and the New Age Rage



The Countercult against Christianity: The Case of Rome



"Gittin' Thar Fustest with the Mostest": Antipathy, Authority, and Apologetics


Notes


References


Index