Religious Movements in Contemporary America

Irving I. Zaretsky; Mark P. Leone

Published by Princeton University Press 1975

Religious Movements in Contemporary America

Irving I. Zaretsky and Mark P. Leone

Volume 1844 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400868841

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Contemporary religious movements in America vary greatly in their organization, goals, methods, and membership. Reflecting the striking diversity of the current religious movement, the papers in this volume consider three categories of religious movements: native American churches, recently founded religious groups, and syncretistic groups based on imported cults. The general aim is to understand the varieties of human behavior within these institutions and to point out their relationship to society in the United States.

Originally published in 1975.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	x
INTRODUCTION. The Common Foundation of Religious Diversity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
SECTION ONE Church and State: Limits of Religious Innovation within the Social Order
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The Legitimation of Marginal Religions in the United States Leo Pfeffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
"The Law Knows No Heresy": Marginal Religious Movements and the Courts John Richard Burkholder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
SECTION TWO. Language in Culture and Society: Linguistic Forms in Ritual Contexts
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Uncovering Ritual Structures in Afro-American Music Morton Marks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
The Psychology of the Spiritual Sermon Bruce A. Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Ritualization: A Study in Texture and Texture Change Mary Catherine Bateson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches Irving I. Zaretsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
SECTION THREE. Altered States of Consciousness: Processes of Religious Innovation and Social Change
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Altered States of Consciousness Erika Bourguignon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Prognosis: A New Religion? Felicitas D. Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Cocoon Work: An Interpretation of the Concern of Contemporary Youth with the Mystical Raymond Η. Prince Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
SECTION FOUR. Psychological Dimensions of Religious Innovation
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Ritual, Release, and Orientation: Maintenance of the Self in the Antinomian Personality Nathan Adler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Sectarianism and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Controlled Comparison of Puerto Rican Pentecostals and Catholics Vivian Garrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Spiritualists and Shamans as Psychotherapists: An Account of Original Anthropological Sin Ε. Fuller Torrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
A Medium for Mental Health Roger Lauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism Edward J. Moody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Belief, Ritual, and Healing: New England Spiritualism and Mexican-American Spiritism Compared June Macklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Ideological Support for the Marginal Middle Class: Faith Healing and Glossolalia Ε. Mansell Pattison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
SECTION FIVE. Eastern Philosophies and Western Alienation: The Social Function of Imported Cults
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The Hare Krishna Movement J. Stillson Judah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
The Meher Baba Movement: Its Affect on Post-Adolescent Social Alienation Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
SECTION SIX. Symbols and Innovation: Belief Systems and Ritual Behavior
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Latter-Day Sense and Substance Janet L. Dolgin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction, and Occultism Harriet Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
SECTION SEVEN. Glassiiicatory Approaches: Typologies in Historiographical and Sociological Analysis
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The Historical Study of Marginal American Religious Movements John F. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	596
Culture Crises and New Religious Movements: A Paradigmatic Statement of a Theory of Cults Allan W. Eister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	612
Towards a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft Marcello Truzzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	628
The Deprivation and Disorganization Theories of Social Movements Virginia Η. Hine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	646
SECTION EIGHT. Religious Innovation: Processual Considerations
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Pentecostalism: Revolution or Counter-Revolution? Luther P. Gerlach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	669
"Publish" or Perish: Negro Jehovah's Witness Adaptation in the Ghetto Lee R. Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	700
The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion Mark P. Leone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	722
CONCLUSION. Perspectives for Future Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	767
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	771
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	815
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	823
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