Sacred Schisms
How Religions Divide
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- Editors:
- James R. Lewis, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
- Sarah M. Lewis, University of Wales, Lampeter
- Date Published: March 2014
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- isbn: 9781107684508
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Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups. Because schisms emerge out of controversies, the term has negative connotations. Though they are an important component of many analyses, schisms in general have not been subjected to systematic analysis. This volume provides the first book-length study of religious schisms as a general phenomenon. Some chapters examine specific case studies while others provide surveys of the history of schisms within larger religious traditions, such as Islam and Buddhism. Other chapters are more theoretically focused. Examples are drawn from a wide variety of different traditions and geographical areas, from early Mediterranean Christianity to modern Japanese New Religions, and from the Jehovah's Witnesses to Neo-Pagans.
Read more- Provides a cross-cultural overview of factors that can lead to schisms
- Covers more recent religions as well as established traditions
- Reveals the beneficial effects of schism as well as harmful ones
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'This is an interesting and worthwhile collection of fourteen essays, predominantly case studies, examining why and how schisms occurred in a variety of religious traditions and movements … offers an interesting introduction to an overlooked topic in the sociology of religion through a series of well-crafted case studies.' Scottish Journal of Theology
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- Date Published: March 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107684508
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
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Table of Contents
Introduction James R. Lewis and Sarah Lewis
Part I. Theoretical Overview:
1. Understanding schisms: theoretical explanations for their origins Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle
Part II. Survey of Schisms in Selected Traditions: Charismatic Authority in Islam:
2. An analysis of the cause of schisms in the Ummah Ron Geaves
3. Schisms in Buddhism Alan Cole
4. Schisms in Japanese new religious movements Robert Kisala
Part III. Christian Tradition:
5. Finishing the mystery - the Watch Tower and 'The 1917 Schism' George D. Chryssides
6. Challenges to charismatic authority in the unificationist movement David G. Bromley and Rachel Bobbitt
7. Persecution and schismogenesis: how a penitential crisis over mass apostasy facilitated the triumph of Catholic Christianity in the Roman Empire Joseph M. Bryant
Part IV. Western Esoteric Tradition:
8. Church universal and triumphant: shelter, succession and schism Susan J. Palmer and Michael Abravanel
9. Schism and consolidation: the case of the theosophical movement Olav Hammer
10. Satanists and nuts: the role of schisms in modern Satanism Jesper Aagaard Petersen
11. Schism as midwife: how conflict aided the birth of a contemporary pagan community Murphy Pizza
Part V. Non-Western/Post Colonial:
12. Succession, religious switching, and schism in the Hare Krishna movement E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
13. Schisms within Hindu guru groups: the transcendental meditation movement in North America Cynthia Ann Humes
14. Schism in Babylon: colonialism, Afro-Christianity and Rastafari Christopher Partridge.
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