Preface

Introduction

James A. Beckford

Religious movements and counter-movements in North America

Robert Wuthnow

New religious movements in Western Europe

James A. Beckford

Martine Levasseur

The development of millennialistic thought in Japan's new religions: from Tenrikyo to Honmichi

Susumu Shimazono

Social change and movements of revitalization in contemporary Islam

Said Amir Arjomand

A comparative study of two new religious movements in the Republic of Korea: the Unification Church and the Full Gospel Central Church

Syn-Duk Choi

New religious movements in the Caribbean

Laennec Hurbon

The social impact of Nigeria's new religious movements

Friday M. Mbon

The cult of Huniyan: a new religious movement in Sri Lanka

Gananath Obeyesekere

New Hindu religious movements in India

Arvind Sharma

Index

Notes on contributors