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SECTS & STATS IBD

EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD
10 / 2014
9781781791080
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Sinopsis

A major, perhapsátheámajor, focus of early research on New Religious Movements (NRMs) was on the people who joined. Most of the field&rsquo,s pioneer researchers were sociologists. However, the profile of NRM members had changed substantially by the twenty-first century &ndash, changes largely missed because the great majority of current NRM specialists are not quantitatively oriented.áSects & Statsáaims to overturn the conventional wisdom by drawing on current quantitative data from two sources: questionnaire research on select NRMs and relevant national census data collected by Anglophone countries.áSects & Statsáalso makes a strong argument for the use of longitudinal methods in studying alternative religions. Additionally, through case studies drawn from the author&rsquo,s own research projects over the years, readers will be brought into a conversation about some of the issues involved in how to conduct such research.

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38,15