<p>Peter B. Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, it is the perfect introduction to NRMs such as Falun Gong, Aum Shirikyo, the Brahma Kumaris, the Ikhwan or Muslim Brotherhood, Sufism, the Engaged Buddhist and Engaged Hindi movements, Messianic Judaism and Rastafarianism.</p>  <p>Charting the cultural significance and global impact of NRMs, he discusses the ways in which various religious traditions are shaping, rather than displacing, each other’s understanding of notions such as transcendence and faith, good and evil, of the meaning, purpose and function of religion, and of religious belonging. He then examines the responses of governments, churches, the media and general public to new religious movements, as well as the reaction to older, increasingly influential religions, such as Buddhism and Islam, in new geographical and cultural contexts. Taking into account the degree of continuity between old and new religions, each chapter contains not only an account of the rise of the NRMs and new forms of spirituality in a particular region, but also an overview of change in the regions’ mainstream religions.</p>

New Religious Movement in Global Perspective; a Study of Religious Change in the Modern World

History

Clarke, Peter B.

World

Routledge

New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World

Since the 1960s virtually every part of the world has seen the arrival and establishment of Japanese new religious movements, a process that has followed quickly on the heels of the most active period of Japanese economic expansion overseas. This book examines the nature and extent of this religious expansion outside Japan.

Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective: In Global Perspective (New Religious Movements Series)

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West Africa and Islam: A Study of Religious Development from the 8th to the 20th Century [paperback] Clarke, Peter B. [Aug 01, 1982] ... 0713180293

West Africa and Islam: A Study of Religious Development from the 8th to the 20th Century

Religion & Spirituality

Hodder Arnold

Education and Society in Africa

Stephens, David

Bray, Mark

Black paradise: The Rastafarian movement (New religious movements series)

Borgo Press

Black Paradise: The Rastafarian Movement (Black Political Studies)

Borgo Pr

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Black Paradise: Rastafarian Movement (New religious movements series)

Social Sciences

Aquarian Press

New Religions in Global Perspective: Religious Change in the Modern World

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