The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements 2009
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195369649.003.0004
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The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements

Abstract: This article criticizes approaches to new religious movements that view them in terms of reactions to secularization or in terms of certain other understandings of modernity. Instead, it argues that one should draw from more nuanced understandings of the modern world, particularly Anthony Giddens's analysis of modernity and globalization. Giddens is, however, overly simplistic in his portrayal of religion, and the article suggests how globalization theory might be modified to be applicable to the interpretatio… Show more

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“…The data we used were collected from the Seicho-no-Ie's supporters of the city of Goiania, State of Goiás, in 2015, and from religious publications with which we had contact. This study is congruous with the discussions that understand new religions and spiritualties as responses to modern social and cultural contingencies, in particular the approaches of Lorne L. Dawson (2004; Christopher Partridge (2005). Both of these authors draw attention to the importance of sociological understanding of the new religions and alternative spiritualities as a specific phenomenon of contemporaneity that should not be reduced to comprehensive schemes that trivialize this kind of religious sensitivity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 74%
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“…The data we used were collected from the Seicho-no-Ie's supporters of the city of Goiania, State of Goiás, in 2015, and from religious publications with which we had contact. This study is congruous with the discussions that understand new religions and spiritualties as responses to modern social and cultural contingencies, in particular the approaches of Lorne L. Dawson (2004; Christopher Partridge (2005). Both of these authors draw attention to the importance of sociological understanding of the new religions and alternative spiritualities as a specific phenomenon of contemporaneity that should not be reduced to comprehensive schemes that trivialize this kind of religious sensitivity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…Aqui nos alinhamos a uma terceira leitura proposta, entre outros, por Lorne L. Dawson (2004;2006a). Para esse sociólogo canadense, o ambiente de ambiguidade e riscos da modernidade tardia favorece novas respostas religiosas.…”
Section: Aspectos Sociológicosunclassified
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