Social Science as a Complement to the Historical Perspective: The Case of New Religions

Scholars trained in different disciplines are likely to consign different importance to descriptive and explanatory variables in their studies of the same social reality. While the historian can construct a picture of new religious movements (NRMs) as developments of traditional religions with littl...

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Main Author: Barker, Eileen 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Diagonal-Verlag 2012
In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 2006, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-132
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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