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oapen-20.500.12657-588362022-10-15T03:24:24Z The Demise of Religion Stausberg, Michael Cusack, Carole M. Wright, Stuart A. cult secularism collective violence ideology extinction mass suicide new religious movements bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRQ Alternative belief systems::HRQM Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this open access book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International contributors provide case studies from the United States, England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution; the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018 after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves the way for future research The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre for Advanced Study at theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 2022-10-14T14:54:43Z 2022-10-14T14:54:43Z 2020 book ONIX_20221014_9781350162938_167 9781350162938 9781350162921 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58836 eng application/pdf n/a 9781350162921.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350162945 10.5040/9781350162945 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350162938 9781350162921 Bloomsbury Academic 208 London open access
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Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this open access book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International contributors provide case studies from the United States, England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution; the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018 after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves the way for future research The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre for Advanced Study at theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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