Communities of Dissent A History of Alternative Religions in America

Name: Communities of Dissent A History of Alternative Religions in America
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ISBN: 9780195158250

ISBN-10: 0195158253

ISBN-13: 9780195158250

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stephen J. Stein

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Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion and race, class, gender, and region. Virtually always, the dramatic, dynamic history of alternative religions runs parallel to that of dissent in America. Communities of Dissent is an evenhanded and marvelously lively history of New Religious Movements in America. Stephen J. Stein describes the evolution and structure of alternative religious movements from both sides: the critics and the religious dissenters…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 8.27" wide x 5.51" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Talking About Religious Outsiders



Early Dissenters and Popular Religion



Peace Movements in Colonial America



Communitarians Living on the Margins



Apocalyptic Traditions: Watching and Waiting for the End



Healers and Occultists: Women of Spiritual Means



Sectarians in the City



Twentieth-Century Sects and Cults


Chronology


Further Reading


Index