Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface x
4. INTRODUCTION. The Common Foundation of Religious Diversity xvii
5. SECTION ONE Church and State: Limits of Religious Innovation within the Social Order
6. INTRODUCTION 3
7. The Legitimation of Marginal Religions in the United States 9
8. "The Law Knows No Heresy": Marginal Religious Movements and the Courts 27
9. SECTION TWO. Language in Culture and Society: Linguistic Forms in Ritual Contexts
10. INTRODUCTION 53
11. Uncovering Ritual Structures in Afro-American Music 60
12. The Psychology of the Spiritual Sermon 135
13. Ritualization: A Study in Texture and Texture Change 150
14. In the Beginning Was the Word: The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches 166
15. SECTION THREE. Altered States of Consciousness: Processes of Religious Innovation and Social Change
16. INTRODUCTION 223
17. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Altered States of Consciousness 228
18. Prognosis: A New Religion? 244
19. Cocoon Work: An Interpretation of the Concern of Contemporary Youth with the Mystical 255
20. SECTION FOUR. Psychological Dimensions of Religious Innovation
21. INTRODUCTION 275
22. Ritual, Release, and Orientation: Maintenance of the Self in the Antinomian Personality 283
23. Sectarianism and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Controlled Comparison of Puerto Rican Pentecostals and Catholics 298
24. Spiritualists and Shamans as Psychotherapists: An Account of Original Anthropological Sin 330
25. A Medium for Mental Health 338
26. Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism 355
27. Belief, Ritual, and Healing: New England Spiritualism and Mexican-American Spiritism Compared 383
28. Ideological Support for the Marginal Middle Class: Faith Healing and Glossolalia 418
29. SECTION FIVE. Eastern Philosophies and Western Alienation: The Social Function of Imported Cults
30. INTRODUCTION 459
31. The Hare Krishna Movement 463
32. The Meher Baba Movement: Its Affect on Post-Adolescent Social Alienation 479
33. SECTION SIX. Symbols and Innovation: Belief Systems and Ritual Behavior
34. INTRODUCTION 515
35. Latter-Day Sense and Substance 519
36. Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction, and Occultism 547
37. SECTION SEVEN. Glassiiicatory Approaches: Typologies in Historiographical and Sociological Analysis
38. INTRODUCTION 591
39. The Historical Study of Marginal American Religious Movements 596
40. Culture Crises and New Religious Movements: A Paradigmatic Statement of a Theory of Cults 612
41. Towards a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft 628
42. The Deprivation and Disorganization Theories of Social Movements 646
43. SECTION EIGHT. Religious Innovation: Processual Considerations
44. INTRODUCTION 665
45. Pentecostalism: Revolution or Counter-Revolution? 669
46. "Publish" or Perish: Negro Jehovah's Witness Adaptation in the Ghetto 700
47. The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion 722
48. CONCLUSION. Perspectives for Future Research 767
49. BIBLIOGRAPHY 771
50. CONTRIBUTORS 815
51. INDEX 823
52. Backmatter 838