What has Salt Lake City to do with Montreal? Social Identity, Power Dynamics, and Apostasy in New Religions

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Kristian Klippenstein

• RELIG675 Doctoral Seminar presentation. My presentation uses Tim Murphy's definition of religion, as well as analyses of several nineteenth century apostasy tales, to critique the practice (common in the study of new religions) of discounting apostasy accounts.

• Date created

  2015

• Subjects / Keywords

  • New Religious Movements
  • Maria Monk
  • Timothy Murphy
  • Apostates
  • Ann Eliza Young

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3PN8XN29

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International