Irving I. Zaretsky & Mark P. Leone

• Frontmatter,
• Contents,
• Preface,
• INTRODUCTION. The Common Foundation of Religious Diversity,
• INTRODUCTION,
• The Legitimation of Marginal Religions in the United States,
• "The Law Knows No Heresy": Marginal Religious Movements and the Courts,
• INTRODUCTION,
• Uncovering Ritual Structures in Afro-American Music,
• The Psychology of the Spiritual Sermon,
• Ritualization: A Study in Texture and Texture Change,
• In the Beginning Was the Word: The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches,
• INTRODUCTION,
• Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Altered States of Consciousness,
• Prognosis: A New Religion?,
• Cocoon Work: An Interpretation of the Concern of Contemporary Youth with the Mystical,
• INTRODUCTION,
• Ritual, Release, and Orientation: Maintenance of the Self in the Antinomian Personality,
• Sectarianism and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Controlled Comparison of Puerto Rican Pentecostals and Catholics,
• Spiritualists and Shamans as Psychotherapists: An Account of Original Anthropological Sin,
• A Medium for Mental Health,
• Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism,
• Belief, Ritual, and Healing: New England Spiritualism and Mexican-American Spiritism Compared,
• Ideological Support for the Marginal Middle Class: Faith Healing and Glossolalia,
• INTRODUCTION,
• The Hare Krishna Movement,
• The Meher Baba Movement: Its Affect on Post-Adolescent Social Alienation,
• INTRODUCTION,
• Latter-Day Sense and Substance,
• Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction, and Occultism,
• INTRODUCTION,
• The Historical Study of Marginal American Religious Movements,
• Culture Crises and New Religious Movements: A Paradigmatic Statement of a Theory of Cults,
• Towards a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft,
• The Deprivation and Disorganization Theories of Social Movements,
• INTRODUCTION,
• Pentecostalism: Revolution or Counter-Revolution?,
• "Publish" or Perish: Negro Jehovah's Witness Adaptation in the Ghetto,
• The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion,
• CONCLUSION. Perspectives for Future Research,
• BIBLIOGRAPHY,
• CONTRIBUTORS,
• INDEX,

Contemporary religious movements in America vary greatly in their organization, goals, methods, and membership. Reflecting the striking diversity of the current religious movement, the papers in this volume consider three categories of religious movements: native American churches, recently founded religious groups, and syncretistic groups based on imported cults. The general aim is to understand the varieties of human behavior within these institutions and to point out their relationship to society in the United States.
Originally published in 1975.
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