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New Religious Movements

The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life

by Roy Wallis

Wallis proposes a typology of new religions as world-rejecting, world-affirming or world-accommodating, with examples from the 1960s and 1970s. He analyses how orientation shapes organisation and recruitment. A classic of the sociology of new religions.

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