caa a22 4500 386392552 CHVBK 20180307112124.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051129 doi S0748081400011346 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051129 Zorn Jean G. Cults and the Ideology of Individualism in First Amendment Discourse [Elektronische Daten] [Jean G. Zorn] Ever since the Puritans sighted their earthly Paradise somewhere near Plymouth Rock, the New World has been a nesting ground for sects, cults, revivals and alternative religions, both homegrown and imported. Today's cult religious groups, such as the Unification Church or the Church of Scientology, are like their predecessors in offering their adherents not merely an alternative religion but an alternative life style. The English Puritans, for example, were a small sect, most of whose members lacked political and economic status in the dominant culture. Their religion offered them an alternative vision of human worth that required their removal from the larger culture and acceptance of a counter-cultural life, including homogeneity in dress and demeanor, and a daily regimen in which most of their thoughts and activities focused on the religious community and its goals. In return for their immersion in the sect, adherents were granted membership in a family of like-minded people and the sense that their lives had meaning and value. Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1989 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/2(1989), 483-530 0748-0814 7:2<483 1989 7 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051129 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051129 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zorn Jean G. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/2(1989), 483-530 0748-0814 7:2<483 1989 7 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge