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Introduction Introduction
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Old Cults, New Ages Old Cults, New Ages
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Controversial Christian Movements Controversial Christian Movements
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Beyond Christianity Beyond Christianity
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Eastern Spiritualties Eastern Spiritualties
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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28 New Religious Movements
Get accessPeter Mulholland is an independent researcher with a BA in Religious Studies from King’s College London. He studied for a Master’s degree in anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast before doing a PhD in that subject at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where in 2011 he initiated the first multidisciplinary conference on New Religious Movements. He also researches New Age beliefs and holistic healing in Ireland with a particular focus on the ‘touch therapy’, Reiki.
Carles Salazar has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and is Full Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Lleida. He has been Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2002), École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2003), National University of Ireland, Galway (2009 and 2011), and London School of Economics and Political Science (2017). He has done research on forms of cooperation, religious beliefs, kinship and family structure, history of sexuality, history of anthropology, and cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics. His main research topic is the study of culture from a cognitive and evolutionary perspective.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This chapter provides a sense of the scale and variety of the New Religious Movements (NRMs) that have emerged in Ireland in modern times. Our research is based on a review of media reports about NRMs and church-related events that appeared in newspapers. We focus our attention on a selection of those unorthodox, heterodox, and exotic movements that arrived in Ireland or emerged from obscurity and attracted the attention of mainstream media. Any interpretation or explanation of such a complex phenomenon cannot proceed without paying due attention to the history of its diverse manifestations and, specifically, to the reverberations of those manifestations in the wider society. Accurate research on the ways in which that history has been drawn together and filtered in the press can provide a first step towards that interpretation or explanation.
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