Sacred schisms : how religions divide /
Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups. Because schisms emerge out of con...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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书本目录:
- Introduction / James R. Lewis and Sarah Lewis
- Part I: Theoretical overview
- Understanding schisms : theoretical explanations for their origins / Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle
- Part II: Survey of schisms in selected traditions
- Charismatic authority in Islam : an analysis of the cause of schisms in the ummah / Ron Geaves
- Schisms in Buddhism / Alan Cole
- Schisms in Japanese new religious movements / Robert Kisala
- Part III: Christian traditions
- Finishing the mystery : the watch tower and 'the 1917 schism' / George D. Chryssides
- Challenges to charismatic authority in the unificationist movement / David G. Bromley and Rachel S. Bobbitt
- Persecution and schismogenesis : how a penitential crisis over mass apostasy facilitated the triumph of Catholic Christianity in the Roman Empire / Joseph M. Bryant
- Part IV: Western esoteric traditions
- Church universal and triumphant : shelter, succession and schism / Susan J. Palmer and Michael Abravanel
- Schism and consolidation : the case of the theosophical movement / Olav Hammer
- Satanists and nuts : the role of schisms in modern satanism / Jesper Aagaard Petersen
- Schism as midwife : how conflict aided the birth of a contemporary pagan community / Murphy Pizza
- Part V: Non-western/postcolonial traditions
- Succession, religious switching, and schism in the Hare Krishna Movement / E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
- Schisms within Hindu guru groups : the Transcendental Meditation movement in North America / Cynthia Ann Humes
- Schism in Babylon : colonialism, Afro-Christianity, and Rastafari / Christopher Partridge.