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Stimulated by the vast scholarly output of James Lewis, experts opine on violence, conspiracies, and new religious movements. On violence, Mark Juergensmeyer explains his "epistemic worldview analysis" in interviewing religious terrorists; Michael Barkun describes transnational conspiracy theories such as the Sovereign Citizens Movement and QAnon; David Bromley highlights the "lost cause movement" which built up confederate identity for Southerners long after the Civil War; Mattias Gardell explores the link between bibliocaust and holocaust from 1499 Granada through the National Socialists of WWII to the Qur'an burnings of Rasmus Paladan in contemporary Sweden. On new religious movements, Rebecca Moore critiques the reputed pathology of the leader in "suicide cults," the problem with "monolithic inferences" in examining members' willingness to die, and the elusiveness of comparative new religions to rigid stereotyping; Catherine Wessinger investigates the extraordinary charisma of David Koresh of the Branch Davidians at Waco, 76 of whom died in the 1993 conflagration with U.S. agents. On media and the law, Carole Cusack traces arguments about religious dress codes in liberal versus illiberal societies; Stefano Bigliardi and his students point out the misleading portrayal of religious sects in films; Zang Xinzhang clarifies the Chinese concept of Xie Jiao in application to Falun Gong. Margo Kitts summarizes the stellar contributions in the introduction.
Contents
Violence, Conspiracies,
and New Religions: Introduction
Margo Kitts
Part I: Religion and
Violence
1. Researching Religious
Terrorism
Mark Juergensmeyer,
University of California, Santa Barbara
2. Conspiracy Theories
Across Borders
Michael Barkun,
Syracuse University
3. Lost Cause: The Rise
and Fall of a Symbolic Crusade Movement
David G. Bromley,
Virginia Commonwealth University
4. By the Cleansing
Flames of Fire: Koran Burnings, Racialized Religion and Politized
Nostalgia in Sweden
Mattias Gardell,
Uppsala University
Part II: New Religious
Movements
5. James R. Lewis and
Jonestown Studies
Rebecca Moore, San
Diego State University
6. The Charisma of David
Koresh
Catherine Wessinger,
Loyola University
Part III: Media and
the Law
7. Invented Religions and
the Law: The Significance of Colanders, Hoods, and Pirate Costumes
for Members of Jediism and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Carole Cusack,
University of Sydney
8. Director's Cu(l)ts,
Reel Researchers: Exploring Sects in the Movies
Stefano Bigliardi,
Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi
Mokha, and Salma Zahidi, all at Al
Akhawayn University
9. The Complicated
Relationship between Xie Jiao and Cult in the PRC
Zhang Xinzhang and Xu
Weiwei, both at Hangzhou
City University
