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Understanding New Religious Movements
After opening with a broad overview of the new religious movements in contemporary Western culture--including the Hare Krishna movement, Transcendental Meditation, Scientology, and the Unification Church--Saliba, a Jesuit priest and professor of religious studies, examines them from sociological, psychological, legal, and theological perspectives. He contends that less fear and more understanding may help bring about a better relationship between parents and their children who have become involved in new religious movements and help others who have contact with these movements. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Christian Responses to the New Age Movement
For Christians, the first encounter with the New Age Movement may prove confusing. On the one hand, there is an attraction in New Age ideology and ritual practice, but on the other, this very attraction raises theological and pastoral questions for the Churces, whose responses have been ambiguous and conflicting. The author analyses the real challenge the New Age offers the Churches today, and gives and overview of the way in which Christian groups have responded to it.
Social Science and the Cults
This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture, focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture. Other sections examine the methodology of studying religious movements and the various theories which have been brought to explain them, current studies on traditional sects that are sometimes compared to the new religions, and many studies of individual contemporary cults.
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century...
The Bandini Quartet
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. This quartet of novels tell of Fante's fictional alter-ego Bandini, an impoverished young Italian-American escaping his suffocating home in Colorado for Depression-era Los Angeles. In the beginning, it is the triple weights of poverty, father and Church that Bandini struggles under but though the physical escape is complete, the psychological imprint continues as he comes to terms with love, desire and the knowledge his talent may not be recognised.
Researching New Religious Movements
This cutting-edge analysis of American and European new religious movements explores the controversies between religious groups and the majority interests which oppose them. It asks how modern societies can best respond to new religious movements,
Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians
The updated third edition of Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians is a theoretically-motivated guide to the assessment of patients with cognitive complaints.
The Gods Have Landed
This is a comprehensive account of the religious dimensions of the UFO/flying saucer experience.
