Author: Biezais, Haralds [1909-1995] ; editor:
Title: New Religions : Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on New Religions held at Åbo on the 1st-3rd of September, 1974
Description: Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, n.d. [1975]. orig.wrappers.. 23x15cm, 223 pp. Series: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 7.. Minor rubbing. Partially unopened. VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: The Problem of Millenarism in India; Maoism: A New Religious Formation in the People's Republic of China; Avatara & Sakti: Traditional Symbols in the Hindu Renaissance; Conditions for the Spread of the Peyote Cult in North America; What We Can Learn from Non- Biblical Prophet Movements; Millerism - An Historical Enigma?; Formative Factors of the Maria Åkerblom Movement; Jehovah's Witnesses' Three Periods;Children of God in Bergen; Tong-il: Some Observations on a Central Problem in the Psychology of Religion; Sociology of Religion & Occult Revival; etc.

Keywords: History of Religion, Comparative, Sect Sects, New Religious, Movements, Religions, , ,