Invitation to World Religions

xviii Contents

VOICES: An Interview with Dr. Xinyu David Zhang 592 Aum Shinrikyo: A Cult of Redemptive Violence? 592 THE REVIVAL OF ESOTERIC AND NEO-PAGAN THOUGHT 594 Eckankar 594 The Raelian Movement 595 The Church of Scientology 597 Wicca and the Return to Neo-paganism 599 THE EMERGENCE OF UNIVERSALIST RELIGIOUS THOUGHT 602 The Baha’i Faith 602 Unitarian Universalism 604 Spiritual Ecology 605 THE NEW ATHEISM 608 CONCLUSION 610

Notes ​N-1

Glossary ​G-1

Credits ​C-1

Index ​I-1

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