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| #3393835 in Books | Rutgers University Press | 2003-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.16 x.66 x6.04l,.85 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting, compelling, informative.|By A Customer|I really enjoyed this book. For anyone who is interested in the sociology of religion or new religious movements, this will be a nice read. I loved the introduction, when the author talks about his own experiences with charisma, in this instance, with Elizabeth C. Prophet of C.U.T. The author covers a wide and interes||"Lewis addresses an issue long recognized in the sociology of religion--'how do religious leaders achieve their legitimacy?'--but he asks the question about leaders of new, and often controversial, religions. A true contribution."|
James R. Lewis has written the first book to deal explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. He contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion, and appeasing government authorities. The legitimacy that new religions seek in the public realm is primarily that of social acceptance. Mainstream socie...
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