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  • Fieldwork in New Religious Movements
    George D. Chryssides
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    27,48 €

  • Jehovah’s Witnesses
    George D. Chryssides
    What would happen if I accepted an invitation to Bible Study from Jehovah’s Witnesses? What would attending a Kingdom Hall meeting involve? And if I invited door-knocking Witnesses into my home?This book introduces Jehovah’s Witnesses without assuming prior knowledge of the Watch Tower organization. After outlining the Society’s origins and history, the book explains their key ...
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    39,51 €

  • Heaven’s Gate
    George D. Chryssides
    The Heaven’s Gate suicides were part of a series of major violent incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s. Despite the major attention that Heaven’s Gate attracted, there have been few scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven’s Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some new writings from expert ...
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    82,83 €

  • Jehovah’s Witnesses
    George D. Chryssides
    From its origins in nineteenth century Adventism until the present day, the Watch Tower Society has become one of the best known but least understood new religious movements. Resisting the tendency to define the movement in terms of the negative, this volume offers an empathetic account of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, without defending or seeking to refute their beliefs. George Chr...
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    91,83 €

  • The Study of Religion
    George D. Chryssides / Ron Geaves
    This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the field, such as gender, phenomenology, and the insider/outsider discourse. Update...
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    56,92 €

  • Love, Sex and Marriage
    Dan Cohn-Sherbok / Dawoud El-Alami / George D. Chryssides / George DChryssides
    In all three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, marriage is part of God’s plan for humanity, as illustrated in the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament, and the Koran as well as the religious literature of these three traditions. It is viewed as a sacred bond as well as a means to personal fulfilment. It is more than a legal contract, rather an institution with ...
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    54,04 €

  • Christians in the Twenty-First Century
    George D. Chryssides / Margaret Z. Wilkins
    The book explores what it means to be a practising Christian in a variety of traditions and countries, as well as the way it is expressed in ’cultural’ and ’commercial’ Christianity. ...
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    76,14 €

  • Christianity Today
    George D. Chryssides
    A series of case studies illustrate the contemporary issues facing Christianity in contemporary society. This new introduction aims to present Christianity through the lens of contemporary issues. Illustrated throughout with examples and case studies taken from lived religion, each chapter looks at Christianity in a modern context, and modern issues relevant to the religion. Af...
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    44,86 €

  • A to Z of Jehovah’s Witnesses
    George D Chryssides / George D. Chryssides / George DChryssides
    The theme of prophecy, the doctrine of the 144,000, end-time calculations, Armageddon, and the Witnesses’ denial of hell are all considered in The A to Z of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 250 cross-referenced dictionary entries relating to key people and concepts. ...
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    63,92 €

  • to Z of New Religious Movements
    George Chryssides / George D Chryssides / George D. Chryssides / George DChryssides
    Alongside the older and more established religions, there are hundreds, indeed, thousands more, which have recently emerged. These ’new religious movements’ or NRMs_for lack of a better name_are not only numerous, they are also extremely varied and stem from a wide array of sources. ...
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    63,08 €

  • Exploring New Religions
    George D. Chryssides
    New religious movements - popularly know as ’cults’- arouse strong public opinion and most books on the subject are polemical, giving hostile reaction rather than informed exploration. Exploring New Religions provides an account of a wide variety of new religions, focusing on their origins, beliefs and practices, which are set out in a compelling but dispassionate way, leaving ...
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    174,45 €