author: george d chryssides

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Studying Christians

... Theology. Oxford: Blackwell. Segovia, F. F. and M. A. Tolbert (eds) (1995a). Reading from This Place, Volume 1 ... Seventh-day Adventist Church (2005). '28 Fundamental Beliefs'. Accessible online at URL: https://szu.adventist.org ...

A Reader in New Religious Movements: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements

... Violet Flame As you begin to use the violet flame, you will experience feelings ofjoy, lightness, hope and newness ... decrees anywhere, anytime–in your car, while doing chores or before going to bed. In fact, simply repeating a violet ...

Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses

... Ministry School and Service Meeting is held during the week for training in preaching and house-to-house ministry ... Life and Ministry Meeting. See also BEREAN BIBLE STUDIES; DAWN BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION. CONGREGATION SERVANT. See ...

The Study of Religion: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods

... mini-essays, while interview subjects often like to expand on and qualify their answers. Open-ended information is more difficult, although not impossible, to process. Processing involves coding your questions and responses, and ...

Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements

... religious movement in a primal society,” designating religions that have arisen mainly within nonliterate cultures through interaction between primal religion and the missionary activity of traditional major religions, most notably ...

Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group

... bibliotecapleyades.net/halebopp/hg/book/2-5.htm > , accessed February 7 , 2009 . ( 1988 ) , " 188 Update - The UFO Two and their Crew , " < http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/halebopp/hg/book/3-3.htm > , accessed February 7 , 2009 ...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Studying Christians

... (2015). Fighting Fundamentalist: Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Russian Orthodox Church (2019). 'Orthodox Fasting Calendar'. Accessible online at URL: http://calendar ...

Christians in the Twenty-First Century

... Celtic Orthodox Church) and were joined in 1988 by some British priests who seceded. There are various bodies professing Orthodoxy in Britain and France: in addition to the ... Orthodox Church, led by Pyotr Kuzetsov (b. 1964). Kuzetsov.

Contested Concepts in the Study of Religion: A Critical Exploration

... supersitio later followed suit, and from the first century CE, superstitio 'became associated with “depraved, strange, spooky and dishonourable” practices of foreign peoples such as the Egyptians, the Druids or the Chaldaeans' (Martin ...

Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements

... Kemetic Orthodoxy does not claim exclusivity . Followers hold that they are practicing a religion that took its rise around 4500 BCE and that it is possible to reconstruct its beliefs and practices through primary - source texts , such ...

Jehovah's Witnesses: Continuity and Change

... jw.org, and for the first time articles in the Watchtower and Awake! directed readers to additional online material that was not to be found in its traditional printed resources. A further development in 2014 was JW Broadcasting (tv.jw.org) ...

Jehovah’s Witnesses: A New Introduction

... meeting , Our Christian Life and Ministry , is normally held in the evening and is a weekly event , except in Memorial and convention weeks . It has an assigned theme , defined in the Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook , which is made ...

Exploring New Religions

George D. Chryssides. expected tendency of TM to affect one's environment is known as the ' field effect ' or the ' Maharishi effect ' , having been apparently predicted by the Maharishi in 1960 . The phrase ' field effect ' reflects ...

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements

... Kemetic Orthodoxy 288 Kenya 241, 243, 245, 247–9 Khan, Hazrat Inayat 2, 356 Kilbourne, Brock 95–8 King, George 214–15, 359 Kisser Cynthia 8 Kliever, Lonnie D. 294 Knight, J. Z. 105, 108–10, 112, 204,360, 361 Kōfuku no Kagaku 287 Kohl ...

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