"'New religious movement' is a maddeningly vague designation, of course, and definable in infinite ways... a helpful definition comes from the British sociologist George D. Chryssides. According to Chryssides, a new religious movement is one that is 'recent' (which for him means something from the nineteenth century or later), falls outside the 'mainstream', and primarily attracts converts from within the broader culture."
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(2017) David Hempton (ed.), Hugh McLeod (ed.) Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World. Oxford University Press.
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