Sects & Stats : Overturning the Conventional Wisdom About Cult Members
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1781791074
ISBN-13
9781781791073
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 2014
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
478 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects
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Sects & Stats aims 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. Sects & Stats also makes a strong argument for the use of longitudinal methods in studying alternative religions.
A major, perhaps the major, focus of early research on New Religious Movements (NRMs) was on the people who joined. Most of the field''s pioneer researchers were sociologists. However, the profile of NRM members had changed substantially by the twenty-first century -- changes largely missed because the great majority of current NRM specialists are not quantitatively oriented. Sects and Stats aims 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. Sects and Stats also makes a strong argument for the use of longitudinal methods in studying alternative religions. Additionally, through case studies drawn from the author''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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