N.F.S. Grundtvig, one of the chief shapers of Denmark's modern identity and still an active force in Danish social, political and religious life, was…

In this volume of the RENNER series on new religion, the issue of religion and globalisation is treated with a single religion as the recurring exampl…

The articles deal with new religions focusing on esotericism, religious leaders, millennialism and eschatology, and, more broadly, social aspects of t…

New globalised religions take two forms. Unlike new religions such as Transcendental Meditation, the former Unification Church and The Family, whi…

Focussing on the situation in Europe, an international group of scholars present in this volume their studies on diverse topics ranging from Scien…

The author asks, tantalizingly, what happens when we die? If we are looking for answers in the field of religion, he says, we may find that death…

This book explores how identities emerge, persist and change and which power resources are tapped in the course of this process - topics that are of g…

The Islamic term "fatwa" became known in the West after Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence in 1989 on Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses. M…

Stimulated by travel, mass media, and education, individuals have spent the twentieth century questioning organized religion and, as the end of the m…

In Rationality and the Study of Religion, the first book to grapple with the question of rationality within the academic study of religion, the author…

No contemporary religion has managed to ignore the challenge of modern science. This book presents a case study of two different new religions in the…

The topics of the book are: Religious Developments in the former Communist Bloc, Reactions and Responses to New Religious Movements and various commen…