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2. Juli 2024 · A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
Vor 3 Tagen · Although new religions have a reputation for being intrinsically violent, research shows that they are no more aggressive than the world’s major religious traditions. Memes in popular culture tend to stigmatize adherents of these marginalized groups because of their unusual clothing, habits, lifestyles, and beliefs. Rather than employing the neutral term “new religious movement” (or NRM ...
Vor 4 Tagen · NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF Eileen Barker All religions can both inflict and suffer from abuses of human rights. This chapter asks what it might be about new religious movements (NRMs), "cults," or "sects" that could make them peculiarly susceptible to such discrimination. Is it that there is some
24. Juni 2024 · The term New Religious Movement has been applied to all new faiths that have arisen worldwide over the past several centuries. NRMs are characterized by a number of shared traits. These religions are, by definition, “new”; they offer innovative religious responses to the conditions of the modern world, despite the fact that most ...
- David Brennan
- 2009
Vor 2 Tagen · Scholars describe Falun Gong as a new religious movement. The organization is regularly featured in handbooks describing new religious movements. While commonly described by scholars as a new religious movement, adherents may reject this term.
Vor 6 Tagen · The current research centres on new religious movements (NRMs), which are religious groups that have formed within the past 150 years (Chryssides, Citation 2012) and are in tension with a country’s dominant religious organisations (Melton, Citation 2004). Well known NRMs include Jehovah’s Witnesses, Church of Scientology ...
20. Juni 2024 · Falun Gong, controversial Chinese spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992. The movement’s sudden prominence in the late 1990s became a concern to the Chinese government, which branded it a “heretical cult.”
