WHEN GODS DECAY:

How New Religions Arise

 

 

 

 

By

Andrea Diem, Ph.D.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 Introduction

 Chapter One: From Membership in an Ancient Religion to a New One: A

Personal Account

Chapter Two: The Academic Study of New Religious Movements

Chapter Three: Your God is Dead But Mine Still Lives: A Nietzschian Analysis on the Rise and Fall of New

Religions

Chapter Four: Memetic Theory and New Religions: A Blackmorian View of How Cults Succeed

Conclusion: Genes, Memes, and Religions: Utilizing Wilberian Structural Analysis to Evaluate New Religions

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