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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part One: Western Religious Traditions
1. A Family for the Twenty-first Century
2. The Unification Church
3. The Controversies about Peoples Temple and Jonestown
4. The Branch Davidians
5. Charismatic Controversies in the Jesus People, Calvary Chapel, and Vineyard Movements
6. Kabbalah Centre: Marketing and Meaning
7. Controversial Afro-American Muslim Organizations
Part Two: Asian and Asian-Inspired Traditions
8. The Earth School: The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
9. Contested Genealogies and Cross-Cultural Dynamics in the Hare Krishna Movement
10. Transcendental Meditation, the Art of Living Foundation, and Public Relations: From Psychedelic Romanticism to Science and Schism
11. Controversy, Cultural Influence, and the Osho/Rajneesh Movement
12. Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident: A Critical Introduction
13. Falun Gong: A Narrative of Pending Apocalypse, Shape-Shifting Aliens, and Relentless Persecution
Part Three: Western Esoteric and New Age Groups
14. Scientology: The Making of a Religion
15. The Church Universal and Triumphant: Controversy, Change, and Continuance
16. The Order of the Solar Temple
17. New Age Spiritualities
18. Contemporary Paganism
19. Popularity of—and Controversy in—Contemporary Shamanism
Part Four: Other Groups and Movements
20. “Come on up, and I will show thee”: Heaven’s Gate as a Postmodern Group
21. “Those who came from the sky”: Ancient Astronauts and Creationism in the Raëlian Religion
22. Wolf Age Pagans
23. Carnal, Chthonian, Complicated: The Matter of Modern Satanism
Index
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