{"product_id":"the-future-of-religion-9780520057319","title":"The Future of Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSets out to explain the survival of religion. This book charts the contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. It presents information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions. It examines religion as a social response to human needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The authors break new ground for the social scientific study of religion in scope and theory. The result is an empirically based rebuttal of the secularization thesis. . . . \u003ci\u003eFuture\u003c\/i\u003e will enlighten its intended audience: social scientists who study religion, and their students. Its conceptual and empirical rigor enhances the standing of the sociology of religion in the scientific community.\" * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"Students of American religion need lots of help in lots of ways, and they will find much welcome assistance in this volume. It offers definitions of such troublesome terms as church, sect, and cult, with specification as to the nature of organization peculiar to each.\" * Church History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Every serious sociologist of religion will have to confront this book and anyone with an interest in religion should read it.\" * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume presents the material in an interesting, exciting, and challenging manner and should provide the starting point for any theological evaluation of, and Christian response to, the new religious movements.\" * Theological Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Nature of Religion\u003cbr\u003e 2 Of Churches, Sects, and Cults\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I THE RELIGIOUS ECNOMY\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Spectrum of Faiths\u003cbr\u003e 4 Religious Regionalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II SECT MOVEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Eternal Exodus: Causes of Religious Dissent\u003cbr\u003e and Schism\u003cbr\u003e 6 American-Born Sect Movements\u003cbr\u003e 7 Sect Transformation and Upward Mobility:\u003cbr\u003e The Missing Mechanisms\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e III CULTS\u003cbr\u003e 8 Three Models of Cult Formation\u003cbr\u003e 9 Cult Movements in America: A Reconnaissance\u003cbr\u003e 10 Client and Audience Cults in America\u003cbr\u003e 11 Cult Membership in the Roaring Twenties\u003cbr\u003e 12 Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear\u003cbr\u003e 13 The Rise and Decline of Transcendental Meditation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV RECRUITMENT\u003cbr\u003e 14 Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment\u003cbr\u003e to Cults and Sects\u003cbr\u003e 15 Friendship, Religion, and the Occult\u003cbr\u003e 16 The Arithmetic of Social Movements:\u003cbr\u003e Theoretical Implications\u003cbr\u003e 17 The \"Consciousness Reformation\" Reconsidered\u003cbr\u003e 18 Who Joins Cult Movements?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e V SOURCES OF RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e 19 Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation\u003cbr\u003e 20 Church and Cult in Canada\u003cbr\u003e 21 Europe's Receptivity to Cults and Sects\u003cbr\u003e 22 Rebellion, Repressive Regimes, and Religious Movements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515438489943,"sku":"9780520057319","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-future-of-religion-9780520057319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}