UMKC Catalog
PrintPrint


Loading

Religious Studies (RELIG-ST) - Cults Sects, And New Religious Movements
RELIG-ST 5592      Cults Sects, And New Religious Movements
In this course, students will experience: (a) a variety of methods for analyzing and understanding new religious movements in society: sociological, historical, and textual; (b) an introduction to the broad spectrum of religious beliefs which exist (and flourish) outside the cultural mainstream; and (c) an introduction to some of the means by which dominant religious and secular culture has confronted the presence of NRMs-e.g., deprogramming exit counseling, and theologically oriented countermovement. Offered: On demand
Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences
Department: History
Back