New religious movements as avenues for self-change and the development of increased emotional connectedness

Title: New religious movements as avenues for self-change and the development of increased emotional connectedness
Creator: Coates, Dominiek D.
Relation: 40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interaction p. 271-305
Relation: Studies in Symbolic Interaction 40
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040015
Publisher: Emerald
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: The current chapter outlines the process through which new Religious Movement (NRM) membership is conceptualized as facilitating the development of increased reflexivity, in particular the development of an increased ability to connect to others. Based on the narratives of a subsample of 11 former members of NRMs for whom membership signified a desire for an increased ability to emotionally connect to others, a number of factors that are understood as having facilitated or inhibited this type of change were identified and are discussed. The findings extend previous theorizing of NRM as facilitating changes in the behaviors and beliefs of their members, and conceptualizes NRMs as possible avenues through which self-change at an emotional level can occur.
Subject: new religious movements; cults; self-change; connectedness; emotions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341299
Identifier: uon:28708
Identifier: ISBN:9781781907825
Language: eng

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