Lorne L. Dawson
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lorne L. Dawson is a Canadian scholar of the sociology of religion who has written about new religious movements, the brainwashing controversy, and religion and the Internet. His work is now focused on religious terrorism and the process of radicalization, especially with regard to domestic terrorists.
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Published Works
- Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet (2004) (227)
- Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious Movements (1998) (107)
- Shop 'til you drop: Shopping as recreational and laborious activity* (1991) (89)
- Special Report: Internet encyclopaedias go head to head (2005) (82)
- New religions and the internet: Recruiting in a new public space (1999) (79)
- Talking to Foreign Fighters: Insights into the Motivations for Hijrah to Syria and Iraq (2017) (77)
- The Study of New Religious Movements and the Radicalization of Home-Grown Terrorists: Opening a Dialogue (2009) (55)
- Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions, by Susan Palmer, Syracuse, NY: University of Syracuse Press, 1994, 287 pp. $24.95 (1996) (52)
- When Prophecy Fails and Faith Persists: A Theoretical Overview (1999) (47)
- Cults and new religious movements : a reader (2003) (41)
- Religion and the Quest for Virtual Community (2013) (37)
- The mediation of religious experience in cyberspace: Lorne L. Dawson (2005) (37)
- The Neglected Role of Charismatic Authority in the Study of Terrorist Groups and Radicalization (2014) (36)
- Anti-Modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: Struggling with the Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements (1998) (34)
- Who joins new religious movements and why: Twenty years of research and what have we learned? (1996) (28)
- Self-Affirmation, Freedom, and Rationality: Theoretically Elaborating "Active" Conversions (1990) (27)
- Religious radicalization and securitization in Canada and beyond (2014) (26)
- Is there a "renaissance" of religion in Canada? A critical look at Bibby and beyond (2008) (25)
- The cultural significance of new religious movements and globalization : A theoretical prolegomenon (1998) (25)
- Jihadists on Social Media : A Critique of Data Collection Methodologies (2018) (24)
- The Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements: The Case of Soka Gakkai (2001) (20)
- Psychopathologies and the Attribution of Charisma: A Critical Introduction to the Psychology of Charisma and the Explanation of Violence in New Religious Movements (2006) (18)
- Sketch of a Social Ecology Model for Explaining Homegrown Terrorist Radicalisation (2017) (18)
- Civil Religion in America and in Global Context (2007) (16)
- Discounting Religion in the Explanation of Homegrown Terrorism (2017) (16)
- Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements (1996) (15)
- Civil Religion in Comparative Perspective: Chile under Pinochet (1973-1989) (1996) (15)
- Challenging the curious erasure of religion from the study of religious terrorism (2018) (14)
- Cults, Religion, and Violence: Crises of Charismatic Legitimacy and Violent Behavior in New Religious Movements (2002) (13)
- The ‘Scandal’ of the Lubavitch Rebbe: Messianism as a Response to Failed Prophecy (2008) (12)
- Charismatic Leadership in Millennial Movements (2011) (12)
- Creating ‘cult’ typologies: Some strategic considerations (1997) (10)
- On references to the transcendent in the scientific study of religion: A qualified idealist proposal (1987) (10)
- The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements (2008) (10)
- 3. Trying To Make Sense Of Home-Grown Terrorist Radicalization: The Case Of The Toronto 18 (2014) (9)
- Debating the Role of Religion in the Motivation of Religious Terrorism (2018) (9)
- Weapon of Peace: How Religious Liberty Combats Terrorism by Nilay Saiya. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018. 240 pp. $110.00. (2019) (7)
- Neither nerve nor ecstasy: Comment on the Wiebe-Davis exchange (1986) (7)
- Otto and Freud on the Uncanny and Beyond (1989) (7)
- Clearing the Underbrush: Moving beyond Festinger to a New Paradigm for the Study of Failed Prophecy (2011) (6)
- “Free‐ Will Talk” and Sociology (1985) (6)
- Clarifying the Explanatory Context for Developing Theories of Radicalization: Five Basic Considerations (2019) (5)
- The Demise of the Islamic State and the Fate of Its Western Foreign Fighters: Six Things to Consider (2018) (4)
- Leadership and the impact of failed prophecies on new religious movements: The case of the church universal and triumphant (2011) (3)
- Prophetic Failure in Millennial Movements (2011) (3)
- The Study of New Religious Movements and the Process of Radicalization in Terrorist Groups (2009) (2)
- The A to Z of New Religious Movements (2007) (2)
- Reason, Freedom and Religion: Closing the Gap Between the Humanistic and Scientific Study of Religion (1988) (2)
- Re-examining the explanations of convert radicalization in Salafi-Jihadist terrorism with evidence from Canada (2021) (2)
- The Meaning and Significance of New Religious Movements (2007) (2)
- The Failure of Prophecy and the Future of IS (2017) (2)
- Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman, eds., Religion, Globalization and Culture (2008) (1)
- New religions in cyberspace: the promise and the perils of a new public space (2001) (1)
- Church-sect-cult (2011) (1)
- Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults. By Jana Lalich. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv+329. $21.95. (2005) (1)
- Giving Voice to the Sacred: Collaborative Representation in the Study of Living Religious Traditions (1996) (1)
- On reducing reductionism in the academic study of religion: Dippmann's spurious distinction (1993) (1)
- Sui generis phenomena and disciplinary axioms: Rethinking Pals' proposal (1990) (1)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: The Principles of Social Evolution C. R. Hallpike Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986. xiv + 412 p (1988) (0)
- Introduction: Dealing With Attitude and Abundance (2001) (0)
- 3. Canadian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq, 2012–16 (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews : Robert W. Hefner (ed.), Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspec tives on a Great Transformation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. x + 326 (1998) (0)
- Human Reflexivity and the Nonreductive Explanation of Religious Action (1994) (0)
- The Irony of Dichotomous Thinking: Can Theology and Religious Thought Be Incommensurate? (1991) (0)
- SOCIOLOGY 345 - CYBERSPACE AND SOCIAL LIFE (2005) (0)
- Terror and Violence (2021) (0)
- 29. Church-Sect—cult (2008) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Love and the Soul: Psychological Interpretations of the Eros and Psyche Myth James Gollnick Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992. viii + 176 p (1993) (0)
- James R. Lewis and Sarah M. Lewis (eds), Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xi + 338. $99.99. (2013) (0)
- The Sociology of Knowledge Comes To Religious Studies (1989) (0)
- Religion and Extremism: Rejecting Diversity (2020) (0)
- Introduction: Religion and Terrorism (2018) (0)
- Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements, by Lorne L. Dawson, (ed.). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 1996, xii + 468 pp. $47.95 (pbk) (1997) (0)
- 1. Introduction (2019) (0)
- Identity Theory - An Exploration of the Powers and Limitations of a General Social Scientific Theory of Religion (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews : Maurice Mandelbaum, Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD and London, 1987. Pp. ix, 197, $25.00 (cloth (1990) (0)
- New Religious Movements (2017) (0)
- The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds, James R. Lewis (ed.). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, xv + 343 pp. $19.95 (pbk) (1997) (0)
- Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies (2016) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: A Phenomenological Transformation of the Social Scientific Study of Religion Anthony J. Blasi New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1985. Pp. x + 198 (1986) (0)
- The Sociology of Religion: An Organizational Bibliography Anthony J. Blasi and Michael W. Cuneo New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. xx + 459 p (1992) (0)
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada (2020) (0)
- When Prophecy never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group, by Diana G. Tumminia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 240 pp.; $45.00 USD (cloth) (2007) (0)
- 14. Conclusion (2019) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Explaining and Interpreting Religion: Essays on the Issue (1995) (0)
- Religious Sociology: Interfaces and Boundaries, edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, xiv + 194 pp. $37.95 (1989) (0)
- Freedom, Rationality and the Explanation of Religious Action: A Critical Examination of Martin Hollis' Philosophical Thoughts on Social Action (1986) (0)
- Understanding Involvement in Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Theoretical Integration through the ABC Model (2023) (0)
- NRMS, the ACM, and the WWW: A Guide for Beginners (2018) (0)
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