Two Traditions in the Study of Religion

1981/03/01 by Robert Wuthnow
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Religion and Society Interactions #Religious Tourism and Spaces #Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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Abstract

Glock, Charles Y. and Robert N. Bellah 1976 The New Religious Consciousness. Berkeley: University of California Press. Lofland, John and Rodney Stark 1965 Becoming a world saver: A theory of conversion to a deviant perspective. American Sociological Review 30: 862-875. Stark, Rodney and William Sims Bainbridge 1979 Of churches, sects, and cults: Preliminary concepts for a theory of religious movements. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18: 117-131. ainbridge, William Sims 78 Satan's Power: Ethnography of a Deviant sychotherapy Cult Berkeley: University in Towards a theory of religion: Religious pres a commitment. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. in Networks of faith: Interpersonal bonds press b and recruitment to cults and sects. American Journal of Sociology. Stark, Rodney, William Sims Bainbridge and Daniel Doyle 1979 Cults of America: A reconnaissance in

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