Most widely known for its adherents chanting “Hare Krishna” and distributing religious
literature on the streets of American cities, the Hare Krishna movement was founded in New …

The first sociology of religion textbook to begin the task of diversifying and decolonizing the
study of religion, Sociology of Religion develops a sociological frame that draws together the …

This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely
up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins …

Soka Gakkai is Japan's largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims
more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 million members in 192 countries …

This article describes the role of Hinduism in modern Indonesia and the ways in which it has
been adapted to fit the government's definition of religion as a prophetic monotheism with …

This article argues that the field of new religions studies is driven in large part by a paradigm
based in the assumption that new religious movements are comparable because they are …

Summary This Element shows how New Religious Movements variously conceptualize
science and provides readers with an overview of the scholarly conversation surrounding …

This article explores how Finnish Wiccans use different strategies to legitimate their religion
in a situation where the media and authorities have labelled the movement in negative …

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one
of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual classics, Autobiography of a Yogi, which was …

This article will give a general overview of a Sikh movement that originated in the 1960s with
an immigrant from India known as Harbhajan Singh, a Khatri Sikh. His initial aim was to …