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Cults & New Religious Movements

Cults & New Religious Movements. 2011-11-03. 2011-11-03 Agenda. Attendance Announcements Paper Proposal Children of God / The Family International. Paper Proposal. Upload Word document to Moodle on or before November 10, 2011. format

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Cults & New Religious Movements

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  1. Cults & New Religious Movements • 2011-11-03

  2. 2011-11-03 Agenda • Attendance • Announcements • Paper Proposal • Children of God/ The Family International

  3. Paper Proposal • Upload Word document to Moodle on or before November 10, 2011. • format • according to the style guide appropriate for the student’s major: CMS (notes-bibliography or author-date), APA, ASA or MLA. • include: • annotated paragraph with • Topic • reasons for that choice • abstract of what the paper will explain. • should refer to a book or article mentioned in the bibliography. • your major • determines which style guide to use • Bibliography • include at least one of each of the following: Website, encyclopediaarticle, book or chapter in a book, journal article.

  4. Topics • Book Review • Read a central text in this burgeoning field of research. Summarize the contents, the historical context, information about the author, the author’s perspective and aims in writing the book, and your own response to the book. • General Descriptive Essay • Explore a particular New Religious Movement. How did the group begin? What are its beliefs and practices? What challenges does the group face? • Focused Descriptive Essay • Explore one issue in a specific NRM. Why is this controversial? How is it misunderstood? How does it make sense within the NRM’s beliefs system? • Comparative Topic • Select a topic that emerges as a question/curiosity for you during the course, and compare it in several (at least three) New Religious Movements. Some examples include gender roles, violence, criticism from anti-cult groups, media portrayals, socialization, recruitment methods, and many more.

  5. Children of God / TheFamily International

  6. How well does David fit the profile of a joiner? • Predisposing conditions: • Tensions • Religious orientation • Seeker (already reading, investigating) • Situational Contingencies: • Encounter • Bonds-making • Bond-breaking • Interacting • Who joins: • social networks. • No Ideological alignment; Other commitments • history of seekership • hostile environment (Christianity?) • Competition • Characteristics • Young • Middle-upper middle class • Higher educated • Balanced male-female • More secular religious backgrounds Ticket to Heaven

  7. Homework • For Tuesday • Summarize chapter 6 (on sexual deviance) in Comprehending Cults • For Thursday • Paper Proposal due

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