New Religious Movements

3 credits · Divinity School

The rise and development of new religious movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Emphasizes the following themes: utopian, restorationist, and social reform movements in relation to American primitivism and political orders; the role of text and ritual in creating and maintaining religious order and community; and the problematic nature of the sociological categories "sect" and "cult." [3] Mr. Floyd-Thomas