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new religious movement (plural new religious movements)

  1. (religion) (abbreviated Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "NRM" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.) Any religious community or spiritual group of modern origins, having a peripheral place within its nation's dominant religious culture.

    • 1987, James A. Beckford, New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, SAGE Publications Ltd, →ISBN, page 44:

      TM, Erhard Seminars Training (est), and the Rajneesh Foundation are currently the most visible NRMs offering a release service to clients in Western Europe, but a large number of smaller groups are also in operation.

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    • 1999, Jamie Cresswell and Bryan Wilson, editors, New Religious Movements, Routledge, →ISBN, page 35:

      ...the human potential and psychotherapy movements, as well as the more 'life-affirming' New Religious Movements and religions of the self. This was the complex world of the Californian 'psychobabble', of Scientology and est (Erhard Seminars Training, later called Forums Network), of Encounter Groups, meditation techniques and self-help manuals designed to assist individuals 'realise their potential'.

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    • 2004, James R. Lewis, The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of New Age Religions, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 187:

      These two opposing strategies of new religious movements for delivering compensators I will term 'compensation delivery systems' (CDS). The gradual CDS can best be described as religion as a multi-level marketing (MLM) tactic - a term I take from the business world. ... Exemplars of new religious movements with a gradual CDS are Scientology and Erhard Seminar Training in its various manifestations.

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    • 2006, George D. Chryssides, The A to Z of New Religious Movements, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 121:

      Although est and the Forum are frequently characterized as NRMs or 'cults' (q.v.), leaders and participants have typically denied that undergoing the seminars involves following a religion.

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  • James A. Beckford (1987) New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, SAGE Publications Ltd, →ISBN, page 44
  • George D. Chryssides (2006) The A to Z of New Religious Movements, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 121
  • Jamie Cresswell and Bryan Wilson, editors (1999) New Religious Movements, Routledge, →ISBN, page 35
  • John A. Saliba (2003) Understanding New Religious Movements, AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 88

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