An Evaluation and Critique of Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements

Vakili, Hadi

An Evaluation and Critique of Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements

Document Type : Research

Author

Hadi Vakili

Associate Professor of Comparative Mysticism, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Encyclopedia of new religious movements edited by Peter B. Clarke provides a truly engaging and authentic view of the emerging religious movements on a background of the universe. This encyclopedia, containing 428 articles from leading academics, studies the remarkable examples of religious movements emerging in each continent. Clarke as an editor has written a higher income as "New Religions as a global phenomenon", a "Resource guide of NRM" and a useful article entitled "Typology of new religions" in this encyclopedia. This encyclopedia is a leading, research, updating, important, and valuable reference for academic libraries. However, the encyclopedia suffers from some disadvantages, among which we can refer to apparent contradictions in Index, the incidence of historical errors, print, etc., in its context and putting NRM identified with the Cults, sects, and counter-culture groups

Keywords

New Religious Movements

NRMs

Cult

Sect

Subjects

Philosophy

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