The House We Live In: Religio-Racial Theories and the Study of Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-459
Author(s):  
Judith Weisenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Race And Religion

Abstract This article reviews the origins and goals of the religio-racial framework that grounds the approach to early twentieth-century Black new religious movements in New World A-Coming. It discusses how the articles in the roundtable offer case studies that extend the framework of “religio-racial identity” to model approaches for locating the analysis of connections between race and religion as central to the work of religious studies.

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Religions ◽  
New Age Movement ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Scientific

The first edition ofThe Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movementsappeared in early 2004. At the time, it was a much-needed overview of a rapidly-expanding area of study; it received recognition in the form of aChoicebook award. The second edition brings this task up to date. In addition to updating most of the original topics, the new edition takes in more topics by expanding the volume from 22 to 32 chapters, and enlarges the scope of the book by doubling the number of contributors from outside of North America. Following an introductory section devoted to social-scientific approaches to New Religious Movements (NRMs), the second section focuses on what has been uppermost in the minds of the general public, namely the controversies that have surrounded these groups. The third section examines certain themes in the study of NRMs, such as the status of children and women in such movements. The fourth section presents religious studies approaches by looking at NRM mythologies, rituals and the like. The final section covers the subfields that have grown out of NRM studies and become specializations in their own right, from the study of modern Paganism to the study of the New Age Movement. Finally, the present volume has a thematic focus; readers interested in specific NRMs are advised to consult the second edition of James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen’s edited volume,Controversial New Religions(Oxford University Press 2014).

Closing the Frontier: Two Early Twentieth-Century Case Studies

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
Malcolm J. Rohrbough ◽  
John Thompson ◽  
John Fahey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Disaffiliation and New Religious Movements

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Currie
Keyword(s):  
Role Theory ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective

In this chapter, I examine the academic literature on disaffiliation from an interdisciplinary perspective, most notably scholarship in sociology, psychology, and religious studies. I begin briefly with deconversion, due to its close—and often conflated—association with disaffiliation, followed by an overview of key disaffiliation literature, including the development of causal and role theory approaches. I then discuss the “cult controversy” phenomenon and post-involvement attitudes of former members that featured prominently in early NRM scholarship. I conclude with a discussion on methodological prospects for future research on disaffiliation and NRMs.

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