![]() ![]() In 1970 one was hard pressed to find a forum for the presentation of papers, much less get them published. In 1970 one could literally count on their hand the number of people with a primary interest in New Religions today several hundred scholars have made this work the primary focus of their research and writing and that many more are knowledgeable contributors to the field. Since New Religions Studies emerged as a separate area of specialization within religious studies and the sociology of religion in the 1970s, literally hundreds of books and thousands of papers have been written in an effort to understand the nature of New Religions and their likely role in the coming century. The symbolic watershed looming before us in the arrival of a new millennium and the occasion of this last meeting of CESNUR in the old millennium provides an opportunity to look back and to assess the course of New Religious Studies in the past generation. ![]()
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