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What are new religious movements? Elaborate emphasizing their forms and orientations.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Religion and Society

New religious movements (NRMs) are religious or spiritual groups of recent origin, mostly since the 1950s, that stand outside a society's dominant religious institutions. They are new either as offshoots of an old tradition or as imports and innovations. Eileen Barker preferred the neutral term NRM to the pejorative "cult". The Unification Church, Scientology, ISKCON,…

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  • Distinguishing features
  • Forms: how NRMs are organised
  • Orientations: how NRMs relate to the world
  • Indian NRMs
  • Conclusion

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