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The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-oxford-handbook-of-new-religious-movements.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-oxford-handbook-of-new-religious-movements

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-the-oxford-handbook-of-new-religious-mov,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-oxford-handbook-of-new-religious-movements},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

This handbook gathers chapters from specialist scholars on particular new religious movements, themes and methodological approaches, each contributor addressing the specific movement or question they specialize in directly rather than one editor summarizing every movement secondhand. This atlas states its real limit plainly: coverage is uneven by movement, since it depends entirely on whichever movements contributors chose to write chapters about, so a movement the handbook does not cover in depth needs its own dedicated source. Use it for established scholarly facts about a movement or theme a specific chapter directly addresses.

Facts

Assessment

Reliability Tier

A standard academic reference handbook surveying the study of new religious movements, with chapters by specialist scholars, published by Oxford University Press; coverage of a given movement depends on whichever contributors wrote that chapter.

Notes

Standard academic reference handbook surveying the study of new religious movements, with chapters by specialist scholars on particular movements, themes and methodological approaches. Use for established scholarly facts about a covered new religious movement; coverage is uneven by movement since it depends on whichever contributors wrote a given chapter.

Citation

Author

James R. Lewis (ed.)

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Year

2004

Source Type

book

Claims Backed By This Source (265 claims)

This source backs 265 claims across the atlas. As facts: 162 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 9 holds, 4 connected, 4 rejected Here, 6 held Differently. Plus 77 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

New Religious Movements, 100 claims: 65 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 34 general references.
Denominations, 48 claims: 23 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 4 rejected Here, 6 held Differently, 11 general references.
Articles, 42 claims: 28 well-attested, 1 holds, 4 connected, 9 general references.
Historical Figures, 26 claims: 19 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 5 general references.
Religions, 11 claims: 6 well-attested, 5 general references.
Deities, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Secret Societies, 10 claims: 5 well-attested, 5 general references.
Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
Sacred Sites, 6 claims: 1 well-attested, 3 holds, 2 general references.
Doctrines, 3 claims: 3 general references.
Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Religious Movements, 1 claims: 1 general references.