Apologies for the cross-posting. Please find below details of Inform's upcoming Seminar. INFORM Seminar XLVI AFRICAN NEW RELIGIONS IN THE WEST Saturday 14 May...
100 Spiritual Power List by Watkins The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People We’re delighted to share our début list of the 100 most spiritually ...
I'd have thought that Pope Benedict XVI (who doesn't appear on the list) was more spiritually influential than Dan Brown! The Archbishop of Canterbury and...
... FWIW, the pope is in the list at no. 34, under his birth name, Joseph Alois Ratzinger. Watkins is a London "mind body spirit" bookshop specialising in new...
Sorry - I missed Ratzinger's name. I'm glad he gets listed, particularly since his Jesus of Nazareth was on display at airport bookshops, alongside Dan Brown's...
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... Is Anonymous a religious movement? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@... Web: http://hayesstw.tumblr.com/ (follow me on Tumblr) Blog:...
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Mar 8, 2011 7:30 am
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the nurel group: How "new" are new religious movements? What is the cut-off date? o 1800 o 1850 o 1900 ...
When Irving Hexham started this forum, he said that he regarded "new religious movements" as being those that had started within the last 200 years. Most...
Hi, Steve ... and all! In my lectures on NRMs I always start with the introduction that there is no commonly shared interpretation of the "new" in NRMs. – I...
... More a cultural movement, and some-time NRM-countermovement. These Wikipedia articles may be of interest, not least because members have contributed to...
An upcoming conference that might be of interest to some. It would be fascinating to see a presentation on similar uncanny experiences in the Judeo-Christian...
... I wouldn't count that as "new religious movements", except, as you say, in a purely local sense. I doubt that many NRM scholars would be interested in such...
Steve: Re: Buddhism in Germany....Would you agree that North American Buddhism in the form it's taken, for example, in Boulder, Colorado is an NRM? I wonder if...
Andreas and Michael make some important observations about attempts to define NRMs. I think it is important to distinguish NRMs from forms of diaspora...
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Mar 25, 2011 8:16 am
The following nurel poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: How "new" are new religious movements? What is the cut-off date? CHOICES...
An historian might be more likely than a sociologist to generalise from 4 responses to 'most people in the field'! Eileen Barker Professor Emeritus of...
Quite right too ... Ok so most people replying to the Nurel survey. Will that work? ... From: e.barker@... To: nurel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March...
I do agree that 3 is more than 1 - just about three times more, in fact..... Eileen Barker Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study...
Dear friends, Are we in all seriousness analyzing a poll, which draws on a population of n=4 ???? It is far beyound any validity and significance, in my...
Dear Mr Gruenschloss, May I assure you that 'we' were not 'in all seriousness' analysing a poll which draws on an n=4 population. Professor Hexham and I were...
Of course not ... we are being silly or having fun whichever you want to call it. ... From: Andreas Gruenschloss To: nurel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,...
... Though some people have done that in all seriousness. There was a book in South Africa called "Faith for the fearful", which did that very thing, and drew...
