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In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from theology, religious studies, media studies, cultural studies, film studies, sociology and anthropology. Combining theoretical frameworks for the analysis o...

All but the final paper in this collection of nine essays was read at a June 1999 conference of the same title as the book, held at the U. of Birmingham, UK. The conference was organized by the Worship in Birmingham Project, bringing together established scholars and research students to discuss the

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This cutting-edge analysis of American and European new religious movements explores the controversies between religious groups and the majority interests which oppose them. It asks how modern societies can best respond to new religious movements,

Analysing American and European religious movements, this work explores the controversies between religious groups and the majority interests, which oppose them. It asks how modern societies can best respond to religious movements.

The first publication that brings together publications on New Religious Movements from across Western Europe, placing NRMs in a global perspective.

Neue religiöse Bewegungen sind zugleich Innovatoren und Indikatoren des religiösen Wandels moderner Gesellschaften. Unter den Vorzeichen von Individualisierung und Pluralisierung ist gegenwärtig ein Bedeutungsverlust totaler Gemeinschaften (»Sekten«) zugunsten unverbindlicher Formen religiöser Zugehörigkeit (»Spiritualität«) zu beobachten. Dies führt zur Zunahme religiöser Alternativen und fördert ihre wachsende Diffusion und Relevanz für das ...