- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and The Reenchantment of the West
- The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements
- Science and Religion in the New Religions
- Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web
- Violence and New Religious Movements
- Legal Dimensions of New Religions
- The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure
- Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism
- Satanism and Ritual Abuse
- Conversion and “Brainwashing” in New Religious Movements
- Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements
- Psychology and the New Religious Movements
- Millennialism
- The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process
- Women in New Religious Movements
- Children in New Religious Movements
- Waiting for the “Big Beam”: UFO Religions and “Ufological” Themes in New Religious Movements
- Esotericism in New Religious Movements
- The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and “New Age”
- New Religions in East Asia
- Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article surveys East Asian new religions through a discussion of specific new religious movements (NRMs) in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Without diminishing the uniqueness of each culture, these countries share a common cultural heritage from China which makes their attitudes toward new religions different from those of the West. However, like their counterparts in the West, East Asian NRMs embody a bewildering variety of ideals and opposing tendencies.
Keywords: new religious movements, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
Michael Pye is Professor of Religious Studies at Marburg University in Marburg, Germany. He was President of the International Association for the History of Religions (1995–2000) and is now an Honorary Life Member. His publications include Ernst Troeltsch: Writings on Theology and Religion (with Robert Morgan), Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism (1978), Emerging from Meditation (1990), and the Macmillan Dictionary of Religion (1993), as well as many articles on various aspects of the study of religion, particularly Japanese religion.
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- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
- Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and The Reenchantment of the West
- The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements
- Science and Religion in the New Religions
- Virtually Religious: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web
- Violence and New Religious Movements
- Legal Dimensions of New Religions
- The North American Anti-Cult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure
- Something Peculiar about France: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism
- Satanism and Ritual Abuse
- Conversion and “Brainwashing” in New Religious Movements
- Leaving the Fold: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements
- Psychology and the New Religious Movements
- Millennialism
- The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process
- Women in New Religious Movements
- Children in New Religious Movements
- Waiting for the “Big Beam”: UFO Religions and “Ufological” Themes in New Religious Movements
- Esotericism in New Religious Movements
- The Dynamics of Alternative Spirituality: Seekers, Networks, and “New Age”
- New Religions in East Asia
- Witches, Wiccans, and Neo-Pagans: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism
- Index
