scholarly journals Contemporary Ukrainian Ethnic Religion: Essence and Basic Currents

2005 ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
V.V. Kurovs’kyi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Educational Literature ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Family Center

Due to the growing religiosity of the Ukrainian population, there is a need to explore more deeply the new religious movements that are emerging in our territories. In particular, to consider the problem of modern Ukrainian paganism. Given that the number of believers and adherents of neo-pagan doctrines is increasing every year, this makes the study of this phenomenon quite relevant. The subject of paganism and neo-paganism is increasingly beginning to be raised at scientific religious conferences, covered in educational literature and in the press. The subject of this study is the three largest non-pagan religious movements in Ukraine: the Unification of the Ukrainian Motherland, the Cathedral of the Native Ukrainian Faith, and the Family Center of the Native Orthodox Faith.

scholarly journals You may be the right one? New religions and the alternative religious concepts

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Danijel Sinani
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Concept ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Religion

This paper discuses the attempts of redefining the basic notions and determining the study subject of the new religions studies. The advantages and disadvantages of using the term "new religious movements" are pointed, and a retrospect is given on the basic conceptualizations supported by the most influential authors in the field of new religion studies, but the new terminology and a new approach to the problem are given as well. This paper promotes the use of phrase "alternative religious concept" and arguments are given to support the advantages of such defining of the subject we are engaging in.

scholarly journals Anastasians of Altai krai. The history of the family estates settlements and their current realities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
I. V. Oktyabrskaya ◽  
◽  
Z. M. Chirkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Altai Region ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reading Clubs ◽  
The One

The Anastasia movement (“Ringing Cedars of Russia”, the Anastasians) was born in Russia in the mid-1990s under the influence of the publication of V. Megre’s works. It developed from reading clubs and festivals to big projects of family estates and the form of political party. In the Altai region (Altai krai) we can registrate 12 settlements at different stages of formation. In religious studies, the anastasians are considered as the one of the new religious movements that is based on the ideology and practices related to Slavic neo-paganism. In Russian Ethnology/anthropology there are attempts to characterize the Anastasians in terms of subculture, as a community with a complex identity that includes a quasi-ethnic plane. Their culture is based on the natural peasant economy. The main concept of self-organization is the idea of family estates.

Quelques aspects du phénomène des nouveaux mouvements religieux en République Fédérale d'Allemagne

1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Hardin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
German Government ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

This article was conceived as a supplement to an empirical study of new religious movements which was conducted in the Federal Republic of Germany. The empirical study as well as the "national" reports were undertaken because of the concern about the new groups which has arisen in some of the governmental agencies. The controversy about the new religions presents a delimma for the German government. On the one hand there is a constitutional guarantee for religions freedom and on the other there are similar obligations to protect youth and the institution of the family.

Reboot of The Family International

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-98
Author(s):  
Gary Shepherd ◽  
Gordon Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Viability ◽  
New Form ◽  
Dramatic Shift

Since its founding in 1968, The Family International (TFI) has been an important case study for social science investigation of new religious movements. Its persistence and adaptive organizational development throughout the world, in spite of periodically strong social opposition, initially suggested a long and increasingly stable career ahead. However, in 2009, TFI leaders announced a dramatic shift in belief, practice, and organization, which they termed The Reboot. As a consequence, most of the structures and previous functioning of TFI as a visible organization have been dismantled, leading to questions about the group’s future viability. This article summarizes the changes that have taken place, suggests some of the reasons for these, and assesses TFI’s prospects for continued existence in the new form it has assumed.

Conversion by Infection

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
Joseph P Laycock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Original Novel ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Last Man

The Omega Man (1971), starring Charlton Heston, is a film adaptation of the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Matheson’s novel tells the tale of Robert Neville, the last man left alive after germ warfare has infected humanity with vampirism. The Omega Man differs from the original novel and its other adaptations in several ways: The most notable is that it imbues Heston’s character with obvious Christ-like symbolism. A more significant change went largely unnoticed: instead of vampires, those infected with the plague become part of a militant group called “The Family.” Although The Family is never overtly described as a religion, the antagonists speak to a popular fear of new religious movements that emerged in the 1960s. By pitting a medicalized Christ against a disease-like religion, The Omega Man helped to engender a dual perspective of deviant religion as simultaneously medical and heretical. This dual perspective would shape the discourse of the “cult wars in the United States for decades, from the abductions carried out by cult “deprogrammers” to the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

scholarly journals New Religious Movements before Modernity?

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
Andreas Pietsch ◽  
Sita Steckel
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

Can the study of new religious movements be extended historically towards a longue durée history of religious innovation? Several sociological theories suggest that fundamental differences between premodern and modern religious configurations preclude this, pointing to a lack of religious diversity and freedom of religion in premodern centuries. Written from a historical perspective, this article questions this view and suggests historical religious movements within Christianity as possible material for a long-term perspective. Using the Franciscans and the Family of Love as examples, it points out possible themes for productive interdisciplinary research. One suggestion is to study the criticisms surrounding premodern new religious movements, which might be used to analyze the historical differentiation of religion. Another avenue is the study of premodern terminologies and concepts for religious communities, which could provide a historical horizon for the ongoing debate about the typology of new religions.

scholarly journals Terminology of materials about new religious movements in print media

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Martinovich
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Secondary Component ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Republic

This article analyses the results of a study of the terminology of articles on new religious movements in the print media of the Republic of Belarus in 1988–2015. The sample included 631 press articles; 76 different special terms were used by the press to name organised forms of unconventional religiosity. It is shown that practically all, including initially neutral terms, acquire negative connotations rather quickly after getting into the press. Negatively loaded terms can be used even in neutral articles on new religious movements. At the same time, terminology as a whole turned out to be a secondary component in the process of covering the problems of unconventional religiosity. In a significant group of articles (48.5 %), there are no special terms at all. Print media criticise new religious movements and identify religious communities, both with and without specific terms without any substantive difference. The discourse of the print media is distinguished by the least sensitivity to the simplest semantic shades and differences between special terms among all other institutions of society. The degree of prevalence and frequency of use in the press of all found special terms was revealed.

scholarly journals Tipping Points and the Accommodation of the Abuser: Ongoing Incestuous Abuse during Adulthood

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warwick Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Reporting

Until recently the widespread reality of ongoing incestuous abuse during adulthood had attracted no systematic research. The scientific literature was limited to the occasional case study and brief anecdotal references. This minimal literature was supplemented by biographical works written by or about victims of this form of abuse, and by press reports. With the advent of the Josef Fritzl case there was a very marked increase in the press reporting of such abuse, which in turn provided a reference point for more fine-grained data collection and scientific reporting. This paper introduces the subject of prolonged incest via the lens of organised abuse, summarises research on incestuous abuse and draws on multiple clinical examples to elucidate the mechanisms by which such abuse merges with, or develops into, variations of organised abuse, including that centred on the family, on prostitution, or on that involving abuse networks. The abuse practices, the net-working, and the ploys used to avoid prosecution practiced by the father perpetrating ongoing incestuous abuse during adulthood have much in common with other variants of organised sexual abuse.

Among the Scientologists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Westbrook
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religious movements, but perhaps the least understood. Based on six years of interviews, fieldwork, and research conducted among Scientologists in the United States, this groundbreaking work examines features of the new religion’s history, theology, and praxis from 1950 to 2018. While academics have begun to pay more attention to Scientology, the subject has received remarkably little qualitative attention in the secondary literature. Indeed, no work has systematically addressed questions such as: What do Scientologists have to say about their religion’s history, theology, and practices? How does Scientology act as a religion for them? What does “lived religion” look like for a Scientologist? When Scientology is viewed from the standpoint of its members, how might that perspective inform and modify existing scholarship? In response to these and other questions, this work puts forward an ethnographically informed historical and theological narrative of how and why Scientology functions as a religion in the lives of practicing members of the church, who are usually on the margins of discourse on the subject.

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