INFORMATION ABOUT

NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS (NRMs)

IN THE AMERICAS

Resources for Understanding NRMs

NOTE: PROLADES does not necessarily endorse, support or approve of the varios points of view expressed in the documents listed below, but they are presented here for the sake of discussion and analysis so that viewers will have a more comprehensive understanding of the themes presented.

Table:  An Overview of the World by Religious Adherents

Lausanne Report on New Religious Movements, 1980

"Oh, Gods!" from The Atlantic Monthly

CESNUR:  The Anti-Cult Law in France

Jeffery Hadden: Cult Group Controversies

Jeffery Hadden: Why do people join NRMs?

David J. Hesselgrave: "New and Alternative Religious Movements"

J. Gordon Melton:
"Flowering of Cults in the 20th Century" (ISAR)
"Perspectives on the Cults" (ISAR)
"Brainwashing and the Cults" (CESNUR)
"Mea Culpa!  Mea Culpa!" (CESNUR)
"Self-consciousness in the Study of New Religions" (Cornerstone Magazine)

John Morehead:  "Treading Water..." (EMNR)

"New Religions in the Twentieth Century" (Alternative Religions)

Nova Religio
The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions

OCRT: The Cult Around the Corner

OCRT: Cults (a.k.a. New Religious Movements)

Religions of the World:
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices

TIME Magazine -- The NRM Debate:
"Apologist" vs. "Alarmist"

Report of the Swedish Government's
Commission on New Religious Movements (1998)

Spanish Documents

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