A comprehensive and authoritative guide to 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities functioning in today's world

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities

Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging

New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion an

Contains nearly 600 brief entries on the world's religious traditions.