Regulating Religion

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New Religious Movements

Barker¹

2015

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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The term new religious movement has been employed to refer to a number of distinguishable but overlapping phenomena, not all of which are unambiguously new and not all of which are, by at least some criteria, religious. There have, of course, always been new religions – Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam all started off as such. With the hindsight of history, it is possible to recognize periods that have been particularly prone to the growth of new religions. Examples would be the 1530s in Northern and Central Europe; England between 1620 and 1650 and again at the turn of the nineteenth century; the Great Awakening of the late 1730s followed by the Second Great Awakening of 1820–1860 in the United States; and a “Rush Hour of the Gods,” to borrow Neill McFarland's (1967) term, arrived in Japan when the new religions that had been suppressed during World War II became liberated in the mid‐1940s, then, roughly 30 years later, they were joined by what are now referred to as the Japanese new new religions (Shimazono, 2004).

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New Religious Movements

Barker¹

2015

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Religious diversity and social policy: an Australian dilemma

Bouma¹

2012

Aust J Social Issues

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The increase in religious diversity produced by the global movement of people and cultures and the proliferation of internal difference within religious communities raises social policy issues. Consideration of these issues is facilitated by understanding that religious groups intersect with social policy in four basic ways: as objects, sources, critics and implementers of policy. A major issue is the challenge societies face in respecting freedoms of religion and belief on the one hand and providing services to all citizens on the other. Resolving these issues requires an awareness of the religious profile of a society and sensitivity to its religious diversity and to the ways services are delivered. Research into the current status of freedom of religion and belief in Australia is used as a case study to identify issues and potential ways to address them. This research reveals that there is a lack of mechanisms for considering and resolving these issues.

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