Open AccessTypes of classification of new religious movements
Author(s) -
Vitaliy G. Solovyov
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2000.14.1078
Subject(s) - phenomenon , recall , epistemology , biological classification , movement (music) , psychology , cognitive psychology , philosophy , aesthetics , evolutionary biology , biology
An overview of current publications on new religious movements (NRWs) causes the researcher to feel uncertain. Whatever article or scientific review we have taken, everywhere we find diametrically opposite judgments about the same phenomenon, which is not even defined. The question arises: is there a general methodological research program for this phenomenon? Is there a comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, in particular, the construction of a satisfactory classification? Here we can recall the words of the famous researcher M. Mueller that the basis of all true science lies in the classification, and if we fail to classify religious beliefs, we will have to conclude that scientific study of religion is impossible