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.
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...