Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
About the Book Series
Inform is an independent charity that collects and disseminates accurate, balanced and up-to-date information about minority religious and spiritual movements.
The Routledge Inform Series addresses themes related to new religions, many of which have been the topics of Inform seminars. The series editorial board consists of internationally renowned scholars in the field.
Books in the series will attract both an academic and interested general readership, particularly in the areas of Religious Studies, and the Sociology of Religion and Theology.
Health and Healing in Minority Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Harvey, Eileen Barker
October 15, 2025
This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions. The introductory chapter focuses on the metaphors and ...
Radical Transformations in Minority Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth Singler, Eileen Barker
May 31, 2023
All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. This volume examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/ Family International; Gnosticism; ...
Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By Eileen Barker, James Richardson
August 01, 2022
Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves. An ...
Legal Cases, New Religious Movements, and Minority Faiths
1st Edition
Edited
By James T. Richardson, François Bellanger
February 12, 2018
New religious movements (NRMs) and other minority faiths have regularly been the focus of legal cases around the world in recent decades. This is the first book to focus on important aspects of the relationship of smaller faiths to the societies in which they function by using specific legal cases ...
Minority Religions and Fraud: In Good Faith
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
February 12, 2018
Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious ...
The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious ‘Other’
1st Edition
Edited
By Afe Adogame
February 05, 2018
The growing pace of international migration, technological revolution in media and travel generate circumstances that provide opportunities for the mobility of African new religious movements (ANRMs) within Africa and beyond. ANRMs are furthering their self-assertion and self-insertion into the ...
Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen M. Cherry, Helen Rose Ebaugh
February 13, 2014
From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role in shaping world politics and has been a vital force in the continued emergence, spread, and ...
Revisionism and Diversification in New Religious Movements
1st Edition
Edited
By Eileen Barker
December 17, 2013
New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer. Yet these apparently inalienable Truths and their interpretations frequently become revised, ’adjusted’ ...
State Responses to Minority Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Kirkham
December 06, 2013
The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world. In some places, religions come as close as imaginable to autonomous existences with little interference from government. In other cases religion finds itself grinding out a meagre living, if...
Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist
1st Edition
Edited
By Suzanne Newcombe, Sarah Harvey
April 22, 2013
Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. ...
Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Miller
February 20, 2013
Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide. Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had little previous academic or public...