John A Saliba
Biographic Data
| ID | 83402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Saliba |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Saliba |
| SIGNATURE | SALIBA J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Detroit |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography
This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture, focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture. Other sections examine the methodology of studying religious movements and the various theories which have been brought to explain them, current studies on tra…
The Study of UFO Religions
Understanding New Religious Movements
Review Article| March 01 2005 Understanding New Religious Movements John A. Saliba John A. Saliba Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2005) 8 (3): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.122 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Sit…
Christian Responses to the New Age Movement: A Critical Assessment
Douglas E. Cowan; Christian Responses to the New Age Movement: A Critical Assessment, by John A. Saliba. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1999, 245pp. $30.99 (Cdn
Understanding New Religious Movements
Journal Article Understanding New Religious Movements, by John A. Saliba. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995, 240 pp. $18.00 (pbk) Get access Lois P. Mitchell Lois P. Mitchell Social Action Commission United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 2, Summer 1997, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/3…
Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse
Stressing the capacity of powerful cults to harm members and cause a variety of post-cult problems, including depression, dissociative disturbances and dependency, this book provides background information and practical guidelines to enable mental health professionals to help former cult members
Handbook of Religious Conversion
Independent Bishops: An International Directory
Learning from the New Religious Movements
A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
I use an old observation (that religion is anthropomorphistic) to solve a problem almost as old (why do people have religious beliefs?) by arguing that religion is a special case of the more general phenomenon of anthropomorphism. This view suggests that religious belief, often thought nonempirical and cognitively anomalous, is as much based in experience as is nonreligious belief and that it consists in a plausible application of significant mod…
Homo Religiosus' in Mircea Eliade: An Anthropological Evaluation
Religion and the Anthropologists 1960-1976, Part II
Eliade's view of primitive man: Some anthropological reflections
Religion and the Anthropologists 1960-1976
The Virgin-Birth Debate in Anthropological Literature: A Critical Assessment
O of the most recent discussions in theological circles has focused on the Birth. debate has centered around the question, whether the virginal conception of Jesus was a historical fact. Theologians and Scripture scholars participating in the controversy have been unaware that the same topic was concurrently the subject of a lively, at times acrimonious, exchange in anthropological literature, to which leading anthropologists from both sides of t…
The New Ethnography and the Study of Religion
One of the most recently developed methods in anthropological science has been labeled New Ethnography. This approach looks on culture as a cognitive organization of material phenomena, as a way of knowing and ordering reality. The task of the researcher is to unearth and understand the logical organizing principles underlying human behavior. This he does by elicting from his informants the questions they formulate about the world around them as …
A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
I use an old observation (that religion is anthropomorphistic) to solve a problem almost as old (why do people have religious beliefs?) by arguing that religion is a special case of the more general phenomenon of anthropomorphism. This view suggests that religious belief, often thought nonempirical and cognitively anomalous, is as much based in experience as is nonreligious belief and that it consists in a plausible application of significant mod…
The Virgin-Birth Debate in Anthropological Literature: A Critical Assessment
O of the most recent discussions in theological circles has focused on the Birth. debate has centered around the question, whether the virginal conception of Jesus was a historical fact. Theologians and Scripture scholars participating in the controversy have been unaware that the same topic was concurrently the subject of a lively, at times acrimonious, exchange in anthropological literature, to which leading anthropologists from both sides of t…
The New Ethnography and the Study of Religion
One of the most recently developed methods in anthropological science has been labeled New Ethnography. This approach looks on culture as a cognitive organization of material phenomena, as a way of knowing and ordering reality. The task of the researcher is to unearth and understand the logical organizing principles underlying human behavior. This he does by elicting from his informants the questions they formulate about the world around them as …
The New Ethnography and the Study of Religion
One of the most recently developed methods in anthropological science has been labeled New Ethnography. This approach looks on culture as a cognitive organization of material phenomena, as a way of knowing and ordering reality. The task of the researcher is to unearth and understand the logical organizing principles underlying human behavior. This he does by elicting from his informants the questions they formulate about the world around them as …
The Virgin-Birth Debate in Anthropological Literature: A Critical Assessment
O of the most recent discussions in theological circles has focused on the Birth. debate has centered around the question, whether the virginal conception of Jesus was a historical fact. Theologians and Scripture scholars participating in the controversy have been unaware that the same topic was concurrently the subject of a lively, at times acrimonious, exchange in anthropological literature, to which leading anthropologists from both sides of t…
Eliade's view of primitive man: Some anthropological reflections
Religion and the Anthropologists 1960-1976
Religion and the Anthropologists 1960-1976, Part II
Homo Religiosus' in Mircea Eliade: An Anthropological Evaluation
A Cognitive Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
I use an old observation (that religion is anthropomorphistic) to solve a problem almost as old (why do people have religious beliefs?) by arguing that religion is a special case of the more general phenomenon of anthropomorphism. This view suggests that religious belief, often thought nonempirical and cognitively anomalous, is as much based in experience as is nonreligious belief and that it consists in a plausible application of significant mod…
Learning from the New Religious Movements
Independent Bishops: An International Directory
Handbook of Religious Conversion
Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse
Stressing the capacity of powerful cults to harm members and cause a variety of post-cult problems, including depression, dissociative disturbances and dependency, this book provides background information and practical guidelines to enable mental health professionals to help former cult members
Understanding New Religious Movements
Journal Article Understanding New Religious Movements, by John A. Saliba. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995, 240 pp. $18.00 (pbk) Get access Lois P. Mitchell Lois P. Mitchell Social Action Commission United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 2, Summer 1997, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/3…
Christian Responses to the New Age Movement: A Critical Assessment
Douglas E. Cowan; Christian Responses to the New Age Movement: A Critical Assessment, by John A. Saliba. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1999, 245pp. $30.99 (Cdn
Understanding New Religious Movements
Review Article| March 01 2005 Understanding New Religious Movements John A. Saliba John A. Saliba Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2005) 8 (3): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.122 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Sit…
The Study of UFO Religions
Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography
This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture, focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture. Other sections examine the methodology of studying religious movements and the various theories which have been brought to explain them, current studies on tra…
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (3 works)