New Religions: A Guide: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities

by Christopher Partridge

Book Overview

From Christian Science and the Jehovah's Witnesses to Soka Gakkai, Wicca, and Falun Gong, the last century and a half has seen an unprecedented growth of new religious movements, sects, and alternative spiritualities.
New Religions offers an authoritative and lavishly illustrated guide to more than two hundred of these wildly varied groups and movements. The volume is organized according to an entirely new method of classification, which associates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195220420
• ISBN13: 9780195220421
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"