George Chryssides
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George D. Chryssides is a British academic and researcher on new religious movements and cults, has taught at several British universities, becoming head of Religious studies at the University of Wolverhampton in 2001. He is an honorary research fellow in contemporary religion at York St John University and the University of Birmingham.
George Chryssides's Published Works
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Published Works
- An Introduction to Business Ethics (1993) (138)
- Essentials of business ethics (1996) (59)
- Examining the Evidence (1991) (47)
- Exploring new religions (1999) (43)
- The Study of Religion: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods (2007) (40)
- Anatomy of the Sacred—An Introduction to Religion (1989) (26)
- Defining The New Age (2007) (25)
- Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (2001) (17)
- Oriental Thought: An Introduction to the Philosophical and Religious Thought of Asia (1982) (13)
- Jehovah's Witnesses: Continuity and Change (2016) (10)
- The Quest for Eternity (1985) (8)
- Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses (2008) (8)
- Religious Studies and “Heaven’s Gate”: Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange (2016) (7)
- "AS A PEACE-LOVING GLOBAL CITIZEN": A REVIEW OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON (2011) (6)
- Abraham’s faith (1973) (5)
- The Good Heart: His Holiness the Dalai Lama explores the heart of Christianity - and of humanity. Ed. Robert Kiely. (1998) (5)
- The A to Z of New Religious Movements (2006) (5)
- A Reader in New Religious Movements (2006) (4)
- How Prophecy Succeeds: Jehovah's Witnesses and Prophetic Expectations (2010) (4)
- Subject and Object in Worship (1987) (4)
- Monasteries (2018) (4)
- Evil and the Problem of God (1987) (4)
- Divine Commands and Morality (1982) (4)
- The Devil at Heaven’s Gate: Rethinking the Study of Religion in the Age of Cyberspace (2016) (4)
- :Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (2009) (3)
- Heaven's Gate : Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group (2016) (3)
- The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (2014) (3)
- The Future Agenda (1991) (3)
- Ecumenical with the Truth? Jehovah’s Witnesses and Dialogue (2012) (3)
- Unrecognized charisma? A study and comparison of five charismatic leaders: Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Smith, L Ron Hubbard, Swami Prabhupada and Sun Myung Moon (2022) (3)
- Religious minorities (2018) (2)
- The advent of Sun Myung Moon (1991) (2)
- ‘The Silent Majority?’ Understanding Apostate Testimony Beyond ‘Insider / Outsider’ Binaries in the Study of New Religions (2015) (2)
- “Come on up, and I will show thee”: Heaven’s Gate as a Postmodern Group (2016) (2)
- Christians in the Twenty-First Century (2014) (2)
- The Right to be Religious (1987) (2)
- Sacred Schisms: Finishing the Mystery : the Watch Tower and “the 1917 schism” (2009) (2)
- God and the Tao (1983) (2)
- Conflicting expectations? Insider and outsider methods of studying Jehovah’s Witnesses (2015) (2)
- Miracles and Agents (1975) (2)
- Laity (2020) (2)
- Contemporary Philosophy and Religious Thought: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1976) (1)
- New Religious Movements (2012) (1)
- “Come On Up, and I Will Show Thee” (2004) (1)
- Meaning, Metaphor and Meta-Theology (1985) (1)
- Beyond Armageddon: Is the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Paradise Earth Conceivable? (2019) (1)
- The Welsh connection: Pentecostalism and the unification church (1988) (1)
- Jehovah’s Witnesses: Anticipating Armageddon (2016) (1)
- Cusack, Carole and Alex Norman, eds. 2012. Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production. Leiden: Brill. xxix + 789pp. ISBN 978 90 04 22187 1. Hbk. ISBN 978 90 04 22648 7 (e-book). €228.00 (hbk and e-book). (2016) (1)
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Changing Hymnody (2014) (1)
- Living Philosophy: An Introduction to Moral Thought (1989) (1)
- Lord’s Day Observance Society (2018) (0)
- Heaven’s Gate and Charismatic Leadership (2021) (0)
- Barker, Eileen, ed. 2008. The Centrality of Religion in Social Life: Essays in Honour of James A. Beckford. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. xi + 247 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-6515-1 (hbk); 978-1-4094- 0343-2 (pbk). £55.00 (hbk); £17.99 (pbk). (2010) (0)
- EVANS, Mark. 2006. Open Up the Doors: Music in the Modern Church. London: Equinox. xiv + 209 pp. ISBN 1845531868 (hbk); 1845531876 (pbk). £50.00 (hbk); £15.00 (pbk). (2010) (0)
- Moneylending (0)
- Healing at Bath: Report on 3rd annual conference, Bath College of Higher Education, Saturday 13 May 1995 (1996) (0)
- Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Juliane Schober. (2004) (0)
- Religious Inquiry - Participation and Detachment. Holmes Rolston III. (1987) (0)
- Mother, Mothers, Motherhood (0)
- Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, by Anne M. Blackburn, Buddhism and Modernity, University of Chicago Press, 2010. xxii + 256pp., 3 halftones, 1 map, hb. $45.00/£29.00. ISBN-13: 9780226055077. (2011) (0)
- Ninian Smart (6 May 1927 - 21 January 2001) (2001) (0)
- Monasticism (0)
- Cotter, Christopher R. and D. G. Robertson. 'After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies' (2018) (0)
- Scaling Heaven’s Gate: Individualism and Salvation in a New Religious Movement (2016) (0)
- Stoddard, Brad and Craig Martin (eds) 2017. 'Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés' (2018) (0)
- Bultmann's criticisms of Heidegger (1985) (0)
- Monotheism (2019) (0)
- Understanding New Age Religion (1997) (0)
- Two Masters, One Message: The Lives and Teachings of Gautama and Jesus. Roy C. Amore. (1987) (0)
- Ethics and Fieldwork (2018) (0)
- Mastering C++ Programming (1998) (0)
- The Mysteries of Religion: An Introduction to Philosophy through Religion (1987) (0)
- Worship and Rites of Passage (2016) (0)
- Why Can't They Get Along? (2014) (0)
- Review: My Scientology Movie directed by John Dower (2017) (0)
- The Korean Religious Heritage (1991) (0)
- Michal Barnes. Religions in Conversation . Pp. xii + 200. (London: SPCK, 1989.) (1990) (0)
- Milk and Honey, Land Flowing with (0)
- You Don't Have to Sit on the Floor: Bringing the insights and tools of Buddhism into everyday life. Jim Pym. (2002) (0)
- Jesus in Unification Thought (1991) (0)
- Morning Star (0)
- Korea’s New Christians (1991) (0)
- Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience. Donald W. Mitchell. (2003) (0)
- Key data on religions by country (2018) (0)
- Charles Taze Russell (2016) (0)
- Buddha and Christ: Images of Wholeness. Robert Elinor. and Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings. Edited by Marcus Borg. (2004) (0)
- Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Middle East (2018) (0)
- Miracles (0)
- Moon, Sun Myung (0)
- The Rutherford Era (2016) (0)
- Jehovah’s Witnesses in Britain—A Historical Survey (2019) (0)
- Healing (2020) (0)
- COWAN, Douglas E., and David G. Bromley. 2008. Cults and New Religions: A Brief History . Malden, MA: Blackwell. xii + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-4051-6128-2 (pbk) (2009) (0)
- Norman, Alex. 2013. Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society . London: Bloomsbury. x + 239pp. ISBN 978 1 4725 1461 5. Pbk. £19.79 (2015) (0)
- Suicide, Suicidology, and Heaven’s Gate (2018) (0)
- Minister, Ministry (0)
- Concepts of freedom in Bultmann and Heidegger (1978) (0)
- Vernacular Christianity (2020) (0)
- Molech, Moloch (0)
- Charisma—Elusive or Explanatory? A Critical Examination of Leadership in New Religious Movements (2021) (0)
- DON'T GET TOO INVOLVED!’ — METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS (1994) (0)
- The Invention of Sacred Tradition: “Heavenly deception”? Sun Myung Moon and Divine Principle (2007) (0)
- Approaching Heaven’s Gate (2016) (0)
- Chanting in the Hillsides: The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin in Wales and the Borders by Jeaneane Fowler and Merv Fowler (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews (1996) (0)
- Disseminating Daesoon Thought: A Comparative Analysis (2022) (0)
- Sources Of Authority Among Jehovah’s Witnesses: The Watch Tower Society And The Bible (2012) (0)
- Sources of Doctrine in the Solar Temple (2016) (0)
- Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East (2018) (0)
- Ethics and Lifestyle (2016) (0)
- “A Sometimes Mysterious Place”: Heaven’s Gate and the Manufactured Crisis of the Internet (2016) (0)
- Rites and Festivals (1991) (0)
- RES volume 7 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1971) (0)
- The Study of Religion (2007) (0)
- Phra Peter Pannapadipo, 2005, Phra Farang: An English Monk in Thailand , ISBN 009948448X (pbk) and Pannapadipo, Little Angels: Life as a Monk in Thailand ISBN 0099484471 (pbk). Both: 2005, London, Arrow Books. (2007) (0)
- Frisk, Liselotte, Sanja Nilsson and Peter Akerbäck. 2018. Children in Minority Religions: Growing up in Controversial Religious Groups. (2021) (0)
- Selfless Persons. Steven Collins. (1987) (0)
- Cameron, Helen, Philip Richter, Douglas Davies and Frances Ward, eds. 2005. Studying Local Churches: A Handbook. London: SCM Press. xvi + 269 pp. ISBN 978-0-334-02960-1 (pbk). (2010) (0)
- Misogyny (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- PUBLISH AND BE BLESSED:THE SCHOLARLY ARTICLE AND THE BOOK REVIEW (1993) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- The Sound of Liberating Truth: Buddhist-Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng. Edited by Sallie B. King and Paul O. Ingram. (2000) (0)
- Postscript: Some Personal Reflections (1991) (0)
- Ethical Scholars and Unethical Committees: Ethics and Fieldwork in the Study of Religion (2018) (0)
- The Advent of Christianity (1991) (0)
- Denominations (2020) (0)
- Jehovah’s Witnesses (2020) (0)
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