scholarly journals Types of classification of new religious movements

2000 ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Vitaliy G. Solovyov
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Scientific Review ◽  
Methodological Research ◽  
True Science

An overview of current publications on new religious movements (NRWs) causes the researcher to feel uncertain. Whatever article or scientific review we have taken, everywhere we find diametrically opposite judgments about the same phenomenon, which is not even defined. The question arises: is there a general methodological research program for this phenomenon? Is there a comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, in particular, the construction of a satisfactory classification? Here we can recall the words of the famous researcher M. Mueller that the basis of all true science lies in the classification, and if we fail to classify religious beliefs, we will have to conclude that scientific study of religion is impossible

Choosing a religion in the context of specificity of a religious experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
V.Yu. Lebedev ◽  
A.L. Bezrukov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Groups

The paper considers the process of choosing religion in a modern society. Factors that affect the behavior of an individual in the process of choosing religion are considered in the light of religious, psychological and social sciences. The classification of religions is divided into two types: personal experience religions and dogmatic religions. A modern man's motivation to be a follower of new religious movements is considered using the examples of neoprotestant, neohindu and neopagan religious groups.

scholarly journals The Theology and Classification of the Asomdwee Ntonton Nkabom Som

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Iddrissu Shaibu Adam
Keyword(s):  
Precise Definition ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Secondary Sources

This paper explores the theology and classificatory model of the Asomdwee Ntonton Nkabom Som. The classificatory model of New Religious Movements that this movement belongs to is unknown and not much has been written regarding its theology as well. Both primary and secondary sources were consulted. The complex and diverse nature as well as variety of taxonomies of New Religious Movements has partially contributed to the lack of consensus regarding having a precise definition. Based on existing classificatory model, this faith was classified as a Hebrais messianic movement. The movement has its unique and distinct theology, which to some extent, is similar to that of Christianity and Islam and this makes the movement to be seen outwardly as an amalgamation of Christianity and Islam. As such, a thorough research regarding the theology and cultural dimension of the faith is significant for Christian scholarship. Keywords: Theology, Promised Messiah, RABBI, Adherents, New Religious Movements, Fantes

New Religious Movements

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Shame And Guilt ◽  
Emotion And Affect

New religious movements (NRMs), which are often popularly and pejoratively labeled “cults,” frequently become the sites for a multitude of conflicting emotions; they are cultural lightning rods as much for anger, shame, and guilt as for joy, excitement, and a sense of release and relief. Throughout NRM narratives, however, whether primary sources or secondary, whether affirmative accounts of one's affiliation and conversion or post-affiliation critiques of the group in question, two principal affective aspects emerge: emotional fulfillment and emotional abuse. As a heuristic framework to consider these more specific aspects of emotion in NRMs, this article uses the trajectory of participation suggested by David Bromley's affiliation-disaffiliation model. In particular, it examines the roles played by emotion and affect in the recruitment processes of different groups, focusing on affective enticement, affective coercion, and affective bonding. It also explores the link between affect and religious practices, the confirmation of religious beliefs, disaffiliation, and post-affiliation.

George Fox and Some Theories of Innovation in Religion

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Claire Disbrey
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
George Fox

The histories of religions are notable for stories of innovators – people who feel compelled to rebel against the religious beliefs and practices of their time, who come up with novel religious ideas, and, whether intentionally or not, start new religious movements. Theories about the nature of religion need to give an account of religious innovation that accommodates these stories, and most claim that they do, even if only in retrospect. The baffling discovery is that the same historical characters are used to exemplify quite incompatible theories of innovation.

Environmental aspects of Religious Beliefs and Ritual Practices of the rural Population of Siberia (the 1920s. - Beginning of XXI Century) (Экологические аспекты религиозных воззрений и обрядовых практик сельского населения Сибири (1920-е гг. - начало xxi в.)

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-138
Author(s):  
Galina Lyubimova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Population ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Ritual Practices

Radical changes in the structure of rural population of Siberia became the result of transformation of peasant economic and ecological traditions in the xx century. Modern villagers, mainly engaged in the problems of survival, perceive environmental problems as something unrelated to them. However, the valuable relation to the natural environment is now a subject of reflection not only in traditional for Siberia Christian denominations, but also in the new religious movements. Being a response to the ecological utilitarianism which prevailed in the policies of the Soviet state since the 1930s, as well as to present-day worsening environmental problems, the mainstreaming environmental discourse in religious life of rural population is currently taking place. Based on the author’s field materials, archival documents and local periodicals the paper discusses the environmental aspects of religious beliefs and ritual practices of different groups of rural population of Siberia in Soviet and post-Soviet period.

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