Sacred Journeys
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Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission is a
Downton, a sociologist and professor emeritus of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences of the
The work is cited in other books and academic journal articles in various contexts including
Reviews
- Review of Religious Research
Sacred Journeys is a study of conversion into the Divine Light Mission. It includes follow-up information on persons who remained and those who left the movement. [...] The book represents the work of a well-intentioned, compassionate sociologist living in a town where many important events of the Divine Light Mission were occurring. [...] The book has no great insights, no definitive findings and no challenging hypotheses. [...] He [Downton] skillfully intersperses quotations from the guru with his comments. In doing these things, he achieves more than sometimes in the making of books. Review of Religious Research, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Summer, 1980).[6]
Sacred Journeys was also reviewed in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b
Garrison, E. Charles (Summer 1980). "Sacred Journeys, Book Review". 21 (3). Review of Religious Research.
The basic information was gathered in 1972 with follow-up information gathered in 1976.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - University of Colorado at Boulder. 2007.
- ISBN 978-0-231-04198-0.
- JSTOR 1386132.
- S2CID 145381925.
- ^ Garrison, E. Charles (Summer 1980). "Sacred Journeys, Book Review". 21 (3). Review of Religious Research: 373–4.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - S2CID 143804722.
External links
- Elan Vital aka Divine Light Mission, The Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia, Originally edited by Jeffrey K. Hadden. (No longer updated)