"Self-religions have become in the West a part of a new monistic tradition that promotes exhaustive self-exploration."

"Self religions. A term devised by Paul Heelas to denote a group of religions and self-improvement organizations that …"

"Paul Heelas, in his study of the New Age movement, includes firmly structured organizations such as the International…"

"Rupert (1992) discusses a range of cases where religious or philosophical ideas have been used to underpin business t…"

"New Age communities appear to be driven more by a concern for individual spiritual growth than by collective concerns…"

"NRMs generally, and Religions of the True Self and/or Self-religions, which include Scientology and the NAM, can be c…"

"[People] who develop forms of unaffiliated 'self-religion,' a deep but vague and unorganized interest in the sacred."

"Paul Heelas, for example, includes a significant number of what he calls the 'self religions': groups like Landmark F…"

"The largest group of New Religious Movements – both in numbers of individual groups within it and in the diffused ran…"

"Est is subsumed under 'other self-improvement groups'. The latter probably comprise groups for which Paul Heelas coin…"