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INTRODUCTION: RELIGION AND CHANGE
Roy WallisReligion has long been seen as a conservative force in society. This view has informed the rhetoric and theory of many reformers and social philosophers in Europe in recent…
TOWARDS A GENERAL EXPLANATION OF PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL KENYA
Audrey WipperIn my book, Rural Rebels, I examined the nature of two protest movements in Kenya and discussed their determinants. Here I will attempt a more general explanation of protest…
THE FRENCH MENONITES: TRADITION AND CHANGE
Jean SéguyIn this paper an analysis is offered of the history and, more briefly, present situation, of an Anabaptist movement as it manifested itself in the form of the French Anabaptist…
THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE SOVIET UNION: HOW AND WHY DOES IT DIFFER?(1)
Christel LaneAcounts of new religious movements have been almost exclusively about those which have arisen in the last two decades in the most advanced capitalist societies, and theoretical…
KISHIN‐KAI: THE ROLE OF ANCESTOR WORSHIP IN A JAPANESE NEW RELIGION
Hiroko ShiramizuA survey of Japan's new religions (1) shows “ancestor worship” (2) to have played an important part in various religious bodies (3), as a means for attaining happiness for the…
THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT: A NINETEENTH CENTURY MOVE‐MENT AND ITS VICISSITUDES
Steve BruceThe Student Christian Movement (SCM) arose from the formal integration in one unit of a number of different strands of student‐run evangelical religion in British Universities(1)…
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