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Liber XX · New Religions

Liber XX

New Religious Movements

The Bahá'í Faith, Mormonism, Rastafari, Cao Đài and other modern religions.

Every age produces new religions, and the last two centuries have produced many. This section covers religious movements founded since about 1800, among them the Latter-day Saints, the Bahá'í Faith, Christian Science, Seventh-day Adventism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Rastafari, Cao Đài, Tenrikyo and the Japanese new religions, Neopaganism and the Unification Church, with attention to how scholars study new religions and to the debates over 'cults' and conversion.

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Apocalypse DelayedM. James Penton Apocalypse DelayedM. James Penton The Baha'i FaithMoojan Momen The Baha'i FaithMoojan Momen Bantu Prophets in South AfricaBengt G. M. Sundkler Bantu Prophets in South AfricaBengt G. M. Sundkler By the Hand of MormonTerryl L. Givens By the Hand of MormonTerryl L. Givens Celebrity GodsBenjamin Dorman Celebrity GodsBenjamin Dorman Christian Science on TrialRennie B. Schoepflin Christian Science on TrialRennie B. Schoepflin Comprehending CultsLorne L. Dawson Comprehending CultsLorne L. Dawson Cults and New ReligionsDouglas E. Cowan and David G. Bromley Cults and New ReligionsDouglas E. Cowan and David G. Bromley The Democratization of American ChristianityNathan O. Hatch The Democratization of American ChristianityNathan O. Hatch The DisappointedRonald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler The DisappointedRonald L. Numbers and Jonathan M. Butler The Divine Eye and the DiasporaJanet Alison Hoskins The Divine Eye and the DiasporaJanet Alison Hoskins Early Mormonism and the Magic World ViewD. Michael Quinn Early Mormonism and the Magic World ViewD. Michael Quinn The Elementary Forms of the New Religious LifeRoy Wallis The Elementary Forms of the New Religious LifeRoy Wallis The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious LifeStephen Gottschalk The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious LifeStephen Gottschalk Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in AmericaJ. Gordon Melton Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in AmericaJ. Gordon Melton Falun Gong and the Future of ChinaDavid Ownby Falun Gong and the Future of ChinaDavid Ownby The Future of ReligionRodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge The Future of ReligionRodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge God Passes ByShoghi Effendi God Passes ByShoghi Effendi The Great ControversyEllen G. White The Great ControversyEllen G. White How the Millennium Comes ViolentlyCatherine Wessinger How the Millennium Comes ViolentlyCatherine Wessinger An Introduction to the Baha'i FaithPeter Smith An Introduction to the Baha'i FaithPeter Smith Japanese New Religions in Global PerspectivePeter B. Clarke Japanese New Religions in Global PerspectivePeter B. Clarke Joseph SmithRichard Lyman Bushman Joseph SmithRichard Lyman Bushman The Kitáb-i-AqdasBahá'u'lláh The Kitáb-i-AqdasBahá'u'lláh