Relgious Movements Homepage: Course Lecture Index

Course Lecture Index

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Why Study New Religious Movements?

The below list is an alphabetical index of online lectures (i.e. the order below does not reflect the order in which these topics are covered in class), available to students in Mr. Hadden's Sociology 257 class as well as to other interested individuals.

Text-format Lectures

Introduction: Cults and Sects in America
Who Are The Cults? Orienting Information
Cults, Sects, Denominations, Churches, Ecclesia
Cults and Sects in America: An Orientation
Some Central Concepts of Our Inquiry
Paradigms in Conflict:
Secularization Theory VS The Theory of Religious Economy
Cult Formation: A Sociological Model
Why Do People Join NRMs?
A Social Science Model
Joining Religious Movements: The Brainwashing Model
Leaving New Religious Movements:
Social Science Perspectives
Leaving New Religious Movements:
The Deprogramming Model
NRM Group Survival:
Succession and Institutionalization,
The Role of Charismatic Leaders
The Anti-Cult Movement
The Social Influence Model, and,
The Invalidity of the Brainwashing Model
Fundamentalism: Origins, Development, Current Status
The Unification Church (The Moonies):
An Orientation
Mormons:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
New Age Lecture II:
Health as Integrating Core
Pentecostalism
Waco! Resources for understanding
the Branch Davidians and the Waco tragedy

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