Companion to Adidam - Perspectives on a New Spiritual Tradition

A Companion to Adidam brings together a half-dozen scholars of New Religious Movements (NRMs) with a half-dozen of the many academic followers of Adi Da to produce a comprehensive study of a highly creative alternative spiritual group. Though new religion specialists have been aware of this group for decades, and though Adi Da and his organization are generally acknowledged to be important, there have been no prior book-length treatments of this group, and few articles. This is the first published research on the current organization, its membership and the extensive corpus of literary and artistic works that Adi Da created over the past two dozen years.

About the author

James R. Lewis is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromsÿ and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. He is a highly-published scholar of new religious movements and co-founder of the International Society for the Study of New Religions. He co-edits Ashgate's New Religions series with George Chryssides. Recent publications include (co-authored with Nicolas Levine) The Children of Jesus and Mary (2010), Violence and New Religious Movements. (2011), (co-edited with Olav Hammer) Religion and the Authority of Science (2011), and Cults: A Reference and Guide (2012).

Product details

• Authors: James R Lewis, Professor James R. Lewis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781472417374
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-1737-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge New Religions; Routledge New Religions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; USA, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Spiritualism, RELIGION / Philosophy, United States of America, USA, Philosophy of religion, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems, Other non-Christian religions, Other religions and spiritual beliefs