INFORMATION ABOUT
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS (NRMs)
IN THE AMERICAS
Resources for Understanding NRMs
NOTE: PROLADES does not necessarily endorse, support or approve of the varios points of view expressed in the documents listed below, but they are presented here for the sake of discussion and analysis so that viewers will have a more comprehensive understanding of the themes presented.
Table: An Overview of the World by Religious Adherents
Lausanne Report on New Religious Movements, 1980
"Oh, Gods!" from The Atlantic Monthly
CESNUR: The Anti-Cult Law in France
Jeffery Hadden: Cult Group Controversies
Jeffery Hadden: Why do people join NRMs?
David J. Hesselgrave: "New and Alternative Religious Movements"
J.
Gordon Melton:
"Flowering of Cults in the 20th Century"
(ISAR)
"Perspectives on the Cults" (ISAR)
"Brainwashing
and the Cults" (CESNUR)
"Mea Culpa! Mea
Culpa!" (CESNUR)
"Self-consciousness in the Study of New
Religions" (Cornerstone Magazine)
John Morehead: "Treading Water..." (EMNR)
"New Religions in the Twentieth Century" (Alternative Religions)
Nova
Religio
The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
OCRT: The Cult Around the Corner
OCRT: Cults (a.k.a. New Religious Movements)
Religions
of the World:
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices
TIME
Magazine -- The NRM Debate:
"Apologist" vs. "Alarmist"
Report of the Swedish Government's
Commission on New Religious Movements (1998)
Declaration
on the Elimination of
All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination
Based on Religion or Belief
(Proclaimed by General Assembly
resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981)
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