Category:Apologetic: Difference between revisions

A '''new religious movement apologist''' ('''NRM apologist''' or '''cult apologist''') is a person who offers arguments in defense of controversial [[Wikipedia:new religious movements|new religious movements]] (pejoratively called [[Wikipedia:cults|cults]]).<ref name = Robbins>{{cite book|editor=Philip Lucas |author=Robbins, Thomas |title=New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective |isbn= 0-415-96577-2|pages= 15|publisher= [[Wikipedia:Routledge|Routledge]]|year=2004 | chapter = Introduction: Alternative Religions, the State and the Globe }}</ref><ref name = LewisOxford>{{cite book|editor=James R. Lewis |author=Lewis, James R. |title=The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements|isbn= 0-19-514986-6|pages= 7|publisher= [[Wikipedia:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]]|year=2004 | chapter = Introduction }}</ref> Sociologists [[:Category:Benjamin Zablocki|Benjamin Zablocki]] and [[Wikipedia:Thomas Robbins (sociologist)|Thomas Robbins]] say the term is used by critics of new religious movements to devalue scholars whose writings they consider too sympathetic or tolerant of such groups.<ref>Zablocki, Benjamin; Robbins, Thomas. ''Misunderstanding Cults'', Introduction, p. 26, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-0-8020-8188-9</ref>

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