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
Bibliography