New religious movements in the twenty-first century legal, political, and social challenges in global perspective
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Introduction. Alternative religions, the state, and the globe / Thomas Robbins -- pt. 1. Western Europe. General overview of the "cult scene" in Great Britain / Eileen Barker -- Religious minorities and new religious movements in Denmark / Armin W. Geertz and Mikael Rothstein -- France's obsession with the "sectarian threat" / Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- The secte response to religious discrimination : subversives, martyrs, or freedom fighters in the French sect wars? / Susan J. Palmer -- Italy's surprisingly favorable environment for religious minorities / Massimo Introvigne -- New religions in Germany : the publicity of the public square / Brigitte Schoen -- pt. 2. Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New religions in the new Russia / Marat Shterin -- New religious minorities in the Baltic States / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova -- Crushing Wahhabi fundamentalists in Central Asia and the Caucasus : subplot to the global struggle against Al Qa'ida or suppression of legitimate religious opposition? / Brian Glyn Williams -- pt. 3. Africa, Asia, and Australia. Prophets, "false prophets," and the African state : emergent issues of religious freedom and conflict / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Religion on a leash : NRMs and the limits of Chinese freedom / Scott Lowe -- Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shift and moral panic in the post-Aum era / Ian Reader -- New religions in Australia : public menace or societal salvation? / James T. Richardson --

pt. 4. North and South Americas. The mainstreaming of alternative spirituality in Brazil / Robert T. Carpenter

The fate of NRMs and their detractors in twenty-first century America / J. Gordon Melton

New religions and the anticult movement in Canada / Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe

pt. 5. Theoretical considerations. New religious movements and globalization / James A. Beckford

Apocalypse 9/11 / John R. Hall

Establishments and sects in the Islamic world / Mark Sedgwick

Research on new religious movements in the post-9/11 world / Benjamin Zablocki and J. Anna Looney

Cults, porn, and hate : convergent discourses on First Amendment restriction / Thomas Robbin and Dick Anthony

Conclusion. The future of new and minority religions in the twenty-first century : religious freedom under global siege / Philip Charles Lucas.