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    <title>Understanding the new religions</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Needleman, Jacob.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Baker, George</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1941-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Seabury Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1978</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxi, 314 p. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents:</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents> 	Foreword / Claude Welch --
Preface / Jacob Needleman --
Introduction / George Baker --
From Sinai to the golden gate: the liberation of religion in the occident / Sydney E. Ahlstrom --
Roots of the American ethos / John Dillenberger --
New religious movements and the structure of religious sensitivity / Joseph E. Chinnici --
Dimensions of new religion in American history / Eldon G. Ernst --
Ethics, ecstasy, and the study of new religions / Theodore Roszak --
Religious movements and the transition in world order / Robert Wuthnow --
The effect of detente on the growth of new religions: Reverend Moon and the Unification church / Dick Anthony &amp; Thomas L. Robbins --
The interpenetration of new religion and religious studies / Walter H. Capps --
Religious studies as "new religion" / Robert N. Bellah --
The impact of the new religions on psychology / Daniel Goleman --
Deep structures in the study of new religions / Harvey Cox --
Toward a religious criterion of religion / Langdon Gilkey. On knowing how we know about the new religions / Donald Stone --
Reflections on the transmission of Buddhism to America / Charles Prebish --
Charisma and ritual in new religious movements / Frederick Bird --
Radhasoami as a trans-national movement / Mark Juergensmeyer --
New religions and religious liberty / J. Stillson Judah --
Black reflections on the study of new religious consciousness / Archie Smith --
The spiritual movement of radical feminist consciousness / Emily Culpepper --
Researching a fundamentalist commune / James T. Richardson, Mary W. Stewart &amp; Robert B. Simmonds --
What is next in the study of new religions? / Charles Y. Glock --
Integrative and transformative religions / Barbara Hargrove --
Emergent religion in America: an historical perspective / Robert S. Ellwood --
Language and mind in the study of new religious movements / George Baker.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Jacob Needleman and George Baker.</note>
  <note>"A Crossroad book."</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cults</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Religion</topic>
    <temporal>1945-</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BL2530.U6 U5</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">200/.973</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0816404038 :</identifier>
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