Academic Advocacy for New Religious Movements
Of Apocalypse and Justice
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Product details:
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 22 March 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031831683
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XXII, 290 p. 697
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Short description:
This book explores the intersection of advocacy and academic practice within the social sciences, focusing on the ethical dimensions and potential consequences of researchers engaging in political action on behalf of the groups they study. Investigating the ethical and practical implications of advocacy in academic work, specifically within the social sciences. It examines how scholars, guided by their research and vision for social change, engage politically to support the groups they study. The book addresses the debate surrounding academic advocacy: is it harmful or a necessary pursuit? Through a detailed study of a historical advocacy movement, it analyzes the global campaign to gain legitimacy for new religious movements (NRMs) between 1980 and 2000. It is an important read for scholars of New Religious Movements and those interested in the way religion is studied.
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel.
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This book explores the intersection of advocacy and academic practice within the social sciences, focusing on the ethical dimensions and potential consequences of researchers engaging in political action on behalf of the groups they study. Investigating the ethical and practical implications of advocacy in academic work, specifically within the social sciences. It examines how scholars, guided by their research and vision for social change, engage politically to support the groups they study. The book addresses the debate surrounding academic advocacy: is it harmful or a necessary pursuit? Through a detailed study of a historical advocacy movement, it analyzes the global campaign to gain legitimacy for new religious movements (NRMs) between 1980 and 2000. It is an important read for scholars of New Religious Movements and those interested in the way religion is studied.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1: Seduced by a Dream of Justice.- Chapter 2: The Consensus in Plan and Action.- Chapter 3: Defending the Children of God/the Family.- Chapter 4: The Unification Church in Search of Respectabily.- Chapter 5: A Memory of Jonestown.- Chapter 6: Defending Rajneesh.- Chapter 7: The Martyrdom of David Koresh.- Chapter 8: Defending more Abuses and more Abusers.- Chapter 9: Collaborating with Scientology.- Chapter 10: Advocacy, Collaboration, and Ethics.- Chapter 11: Lessons to Remember.
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