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  • New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion

    by Olav Hammer, Karen Swartz ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements

    Edited by Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years come to be treated in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Religious Innovation in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

    by Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    The scholarly study of new religious movements focuses on the contemporary period, but religious innovation is nothing new. This Element explores a historical epoch characterized by a multitude of emergent religious concepts and practices – the Hellenistic and Roman periods. A precondition for the intense degree of religious innovation during this time was a high level of cultural exchange. ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe

    by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, Olav Hammer, David Warburton ...
    "The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret, and the variety of religions documented by the sources and the range of languages used are bewildering. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD