Perspectives on New Religious Movements [Hardcover]

This book provides a dispassionate analysis of new religious movements, charting their growth and examining them from a variety of perspectives  sociological, psychological, legal and theological. Saliba then questions whether or not membership harms those who join these new movements and assesses the charge that they 'brainwash' their adherents.

Preface
1. The New Religious Movements in Contemporary Western Culture: An Overview
2. The History of New Religious Movements in the West
3. The New Religious Movements in Psychological Perspective
4. The New Religious Movements in Sociological Perspective
5. The New Religious Movements in the Law Courts
6. The New Religious Movements in Theological Perspective
7. Counselling and the New Religious Movements
Index

John A. Salibais Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, USA.