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New Religious Movements

The Future of Religion

Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation

by Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge

Stark and Bainbridge argue that secularisation produces religious revival and the formation of new cults rather than the end of religion. They define church, sect and cult and present data on new movements. Influential in the sociology of religion.

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