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Intentional Communities and New Religious Movements

By: J. Gordon Melton
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:celibacy; churches; Hare Krishnas; new religions; new religious movements; religious movements; Scientology

In the decades following World War II, observers of Western culture noticed a marked rise in the number of religious groups whose beliefs and practices differed markedly from those of the several forms of Christianity that had dominated the Western religious ...

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  Melton, J. (2003). Intentional communities and new religious movements. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 701-703). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n260
  
  Melton, J. Gordon. "Intentional Communities and New Religious Movements." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 701-3. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n260.
  
  Melton, J. 2003. Intentional Communities and New Religious Movements. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 701-703 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n260> [Accessed 13 Jun 2021].
  
  Melton, J. Gordon. "Intentional Communities and New Religious Movements." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 701-3. SAGE Knowledge. 13 Jun 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n260.
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