Violence involving alternative religions has long been a topic of intense public interest. This volume examines the famous incidents of murder and suicideconcerning Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, AUM Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidians, andthe Solar Temple, and other, less prominent new religions. The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest--an interest heavily fueled by multiple incidents of mass violence involving certain groups. Some of these incidents have made international headlines. When New Religious Movements make the news, it's usually because of some violent episode. Some of the most famous NRMs are known much morefor the violent way they came to an end than for anything else. Violenceand New Religious Movements offers a comprehensive examination of violence by-and against-new religious movements. The book begins with theoretical essays on the relationship between violence and NRMs and then moves on to examine particular groups. There are essays on the "Big Five"--the most well-knowncases of violent incidents involving NRMs: Jonestown, Waco, Solar Temple, theAum Shunrikyo subway attack, and the Heaven's Gate suicides. But the book also provides a richer survey by examining a host of lesser-known groups. This volume is the culmination of decades of research by scholars of New Religious Movements. INDICE: Introduction I. THEORIZING NRM VIOLENCE 1. Deciphering the NRM-Violence Connection David G. Bromley 2. Minority Religions and the Context ofViolence: A Conflict/Interactionist Perspective James T. Richardson 3. Reciprocal Totalism: The Toxic Interdependence of Anticult and Cult ViolenceDick Anthony, Thomas Robbins, Steven Barrie-Anthony II. THE <"BIG FIVE>" (PLUS ONE) 4. Narratives of Persecution, Suffering, and Martyrdom: Violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown Rebecca Moore 5. Revisiting the Branch Davidian Mass Suicide Debate Stuart A. Wright 6. Explaining the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple: A survey of hypothesises Henrik Bogdan 7. Religion and Violence in Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo Martin Repp 8.The Euphemization of Violence: The Case of Heaven's Gate Benjamin Zeller 9. <"There will follow a new generation and a New Earth>": From Apocalyptic Hopes to Destruction in the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
- ISBN: 978-0-19-973561-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 456
- Fecha Publicación: 16/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés