MALA 70453 - Religious Cults, Sects, and Millennialism

This course provides cross-cultural perspectives on the rise, growth, decline, and societal impacts of religious revitalization movements. Readings, discussions, and audiovisuals focus on anthropologically studied cases of religious revitalization, with their prophetic figures and conversion processes, and the relationship of the movements to human struggles over meaning and social identity. The course generates critical insights into five major areas of religious movement inquiry: 1) ideas about how new religions originate, 2) types of new religious movements around the world, 3) dynamics of recruitment and conversion to movements, 4) life inside religious movements, and 5) research in the sectarian setting.





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