The Sociology of Religious Movements

by William Sims Bainbridge

Book Overview

Explaining how religion and society transform each other, this book explores such movements as Holiness, Adventism, religious communes, Satanism, New Age and democratization. The Sociology of Religious Movements is the culmination of work begun in The Future of Religion (the 1986 award winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) and A Theory of Religion (1993 award winner of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415912024
• ISBN13: 9780415912020
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"