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Annotated Bibliography This selective bibliography includes items that are useful in answering the theological questions addressed in the four central chapters of this book. Most of the sources cited are already referred to in the Notes (although not every item in the Notes is included in the Bibliography). Except for the first section, I have arranged sources according to particular groups. In the first section, I have included general works on new religions, as well as some volumes which are concerned with new ways of looking at the nature of theology at this time in the history of American culture. Although the book does not emphasize a sociological perspective, a few references to sociological works are included. I have annotated only where I think some point about the reference needs explanation or clarification. GENERAL SOURCES Albanese, Catherine L. America: Religions and Religion. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1981. Beckford, James A. Cult Controversies: The Societal Response to the New Religions. London : Tavistock Publications Ltd., 1985. Beckford is a British sociologist who deals primarily with new religions in England and Western Europe, but the similarities and differences are instructive for a student of new religions in American culture. Bromley, David G., and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981. Ellwood, Robert S. Alternative Altars: Unconventional and Eastern Spirituality in America . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. ---. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973. Fichter, Joseph H., ed. Alternatives to American Mainline Churches. New York: Rose of Sharon Press, Inc., 1983. Gaustad, Edwin Scott. Dissent in American Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Gustafson, James. Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, vol. I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Gustafson's discussions of what theology is from his own perspective and his interpretations of the encounters of theology and culture are helpful to the student of religion who is interested in new religions as emerging theological systems. Gustafson, however, is not concerned with new religions. ---. Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, vol. II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Judah, J. Stillson. The History and Philosophy of the Metaphysical Movements in America. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967. This book includes chapters on Christian Science and Theosophy. Kaufman, Gordon D. Theology for a Nuclear Age. Philadelphia and Manchester: Westminster Press and Manchester University Press, 1985. This small volume deals with the contemporary emphasis on the "contextualizing" of theology and contains references to some of Kaufman's other work on the need to reconceptualize the work of theology at this time in history. Kerr, Howard, and Charles L. Crow, eds. The Occult in America: New Historical Per.. spectives. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Bibliography Melton, J. Gordon, and Robert L. Moore. The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1982. Moore, R. Laurence. Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Needleman, Jacob, and George Baker, eds. Understanding the New Religions. New York: Seabury, 1978. Robbins, Thomas. "The Transformative Impact of the Study of New Religions on the Sociology of Religion." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 27, no. 1 (March 1988), 12-31. This article includes a very useful bibliography of social science sources. Shinn, Larry D. The Dark Lord: Cult Images and the Hare Krishnas in America. Philadelphia : Westminster Press, 1987. The Dark Lord deals with anew religious movement not discussed in this book. However, the author, a religious studies scholar, provides a good model for the study of new religions. At the same time he provides a careful critique of the anti-cult model which has been so prevalent in the analysis of new religions. Stark, Rodney, and William Sims Bainbridge. The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. Tracy, David. Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987. ---. The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism. New York: Crossroads, 1981. Zaretsky, Irving, and Mark Leone, eds. Religious Movements in Contemporary America . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. MORMONISM Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition: A History of the the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young: American Moses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Arrington, Leonard J., and Davis Bitton. The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Beecher, Maureen...

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