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Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements

Part of the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137434838

ISBN: 978-1-349-49306-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 3, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction: Canons, Scriptures, and New Religions

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 1 –11

[Early in 367 CE Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria in Egypt, issued a “festal epistle” to the churches under his care. In it, he set the date for Easter that year and by extension the dates for the rest of the Christian festivals. That letter is most widely remembered, however, for its...
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A Teenaged Prophet, a Golden Bible, and Continuing Revelation

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 19 –40

[Joseph Smith’s account of the events that led to his founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is an arresting story. He claimed that in 1820 when he was only 14 years old he had encountered in a vision a divine personage. In his vision Smith was assured that his sins were...
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The Lamb of God and the Chosen Vessel: A Prophetic Lineage in the Adventist Tradition

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 41 –61

[Joseph Smith and Matthew Philip Gill claimed both continuity with previous tradition and departed from it in innovative ways. After being in a quandary about which contending itinerant preachers might have the truth, Smith saw both God the Father and his Son in a vision. But he also experienced...
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Straight from the Devil: Holy Books in Contemporary Satanism

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 63 –84

[At first glance, Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible, hardly seems to fit in with the visionaries and prophets already discussed. Unlike Joseph Smith or Matthew Philip Gill, he does not claim that his religious pronouncements have been authorized...
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Aliens and Adams: Reimagining Creation

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 91 –112

[Historians of religions have long recognized that stories about the creation of the world and of human beings can play potent roles in religious groups. By dramatizing elements of human nature and sketching out both the origins and future direction of history, stories about creation shape both...
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Black and White and Read All Over: Rereading the Ten Commandments

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 113 –132

[Systems of law define communities and contribute to their stability by regulating the behavior of members toward each other and toward outsiders. Religious laws also regulate the behavior of community members toward the gods or other superhuman beings. Prophetic figures can have various...
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Beyond the Gospels: New Visions of the Life of Jesus

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 133 –155

[Even a casual reading of the gospels in the New Testament reveals that their biographical information about Jesus is at best incomplete. The gospel according to Mark, generally accepted as the earliest to be composed,1 takes up the narrative only with Jesus’ adult ministry. While the gospels...
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The End of the World as They Know It: Revelations about Revelation

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 157 –177

[In the 1990s several incidents seemed to point to a frightening connection between millennialism and violence. For example, an obscure group of Bible students dedicated to understanding the extraordinary prophecies of the book of Revelation burst into the media glare when agents of the US Bureau...
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Guidance for a New Age and a New Paganism

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 187 –207

[Like other religions, modern new religious movements express their self-conceptions, understanding of the divine realm, and concerns for proper ethical and ritual behavior in written works of many forms. The scholarly study of that literary output, however, is not well developed. Because issues...
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A Moorish Koran and a New Age Bible

Gallagher, Eugene V.

Pages: 209 –229

[Neither Eileen Caddy nor Starhawk chose to describe what they wrote as “new Bibles” or new scriptures. Nor did those readers who took up their texts as guides for their own lives adopt a vocabulary that described them in scriptural or biblical terms. Both Eileen and Starhawk produced books that...

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