An Introduction to New Religious Movements (P00526)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : DIV-P-P00526

The course will use a two-pronged approach. In the first place, case studies of specific movements will be examined: the movements looked at in this way will include two African independent churches - the amaNazaretha of Isaiah Shembe and the Kimbanguist Church - the Rastafari movement from the Caribbean, and the Unification Church from Korea. Secondly, major themes in the emergence of these movements will be examined. These will include origins and causes, patterns of leadership, revelation (including dreams and visions), and missiological implications.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

World Christianity, (School of Divinity, Schedule B)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The overall aim of the course is to make students aware of the wide range of religious movements which have come into existence in the last one hundred years, out of the interaction of Christianity and traditional or indigenous religions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific.