21ST CENTURY DEBATES
New Religious Movements

The highly successful 21st Century Debates series looks at the enormous social and political issues in society at the start of the new millennium. New Religious Movements looks at the great many new religious movements that have grown up all over the world since the Second World War. It raises vital questions such as: Why do people join them? What effect do they have on individual members, their families and society as a whole? And how can governments reconcile the principle of religious freedom with their duty to protect the public from potential harm?

Throughout the book their are differing viewpoints, facts and debates which allow the reader to make up their own mind about the subject.

 
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More information about both mainstream religions and New Religious Movements from re-xs, a website which is designed to support religious and moral education in schools.

9 More information about concerns expressed regarding the apparent dangers of New Religious Movements from Inform - an independent charity whose primary aim is to provide people with accurate, balanced, up-to-date information about new and/or alternative religious or spiritual movements.
13 More information about Mormons from the BBC website.
15 More information about the Unification Church from the Religious Tolerance website.
17 More information about ISKCON from The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.
21 More information about Erhard Seminars Training and other self development movements from the Washington Post's website.
22 Find out more about Scientology from this website which promotes religious tolerance.
25 More information about neo-paganism from the BBC
website.
31 More information about the siege of the Branch Davidians at Waco from the BBC website.
50 Statistics on current membership of over 4000 different religions from adherents.com.

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An article about France putting Scientology on trial from The Guardian.