5592 Cults Sects, And New Religious Movements (3)
In this course, students will experience: (a) a variety of methods for
analyzing and understanding new religious movements in society: sociological,
historical, and textual; (b) an introduction to the broad spectrum of religious
beliefs which exist (and flourish) outside the cultural mainstream; and (c) an
introduction to some of the means by which dominant religious and secular
culture has confronted the presence of NRMs-e.g., deprogramming exit
counseling, and theologically oriented countermovement. Offered: On demand