Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements by Irving Hexham

Author:Irving Hexham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Occult, Cults & Demonism, Cults, Religious Studies, Reference, Encyclopedias & Subject Guides, Practices & Sacred Texts, Bible Study & Reference, Comparative Religion, Religion, Religious Studies & Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles, Other Religions
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2009-09-19T21:00:00+00:00

Hunke, Sigrid (1913-2000). German author and neopagan leader. Hunke was the founder of various *neopagan religious groups associated with the Freie Religiouse, or the Free Religious movement, and onetime president of the Deutscher Unitarier (German Unitarians). Her book Allahs Sonne uber dem Abendland (Allah's Son over the West, 1960) won her Egypt's highest literary award and an honorary seat on the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo in 1974. Her books Europas ander Religion (Europe's Other Religion, 1969) and Europas Eigene Religion (Europe's Own Religion, 1997) popularized the notion that Christianity is an alien tradition to Europe and attempted to trace the "true" European religion through a long line of people she identified, sometimes quite wrongly, as heretics. A former Nazi Youth leader, Hunke's religious theories are almost identical with theories propagated by *Nazi apologists, including Alfred *Rosenberg and Jakob *Hauer. The big difference between her views and those of Nazi writers is that she replaced references to Germany and the German tradition with Europe, and references to the Jews with statements about Christianity as a form of cultural imperialism imposed on Europeans by early Christian missionaries. Although her work is little known in English, she was a best-selling author in Germany, and her work is the subject of an ongoing study by Karla Poewe.

Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894-1963). English mystical writer novelist, essayist and poet. Aldous Huxley was the grandson of T. H. "Huxley and is best known for his book Brave New World (1932). He experimented with drug-induced states to achieve spiritual insight, and his writings were popular in the 1960s *counterculture. See also mysticism.

Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). English biologist and *agnostic who was an advocate of scientific training to remedy the intellectual, social and moral needs of humanity.

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I-Am Movement. A movement of Theosophical origin founded by Guy *Ballard, dating to his revelatory experiences with "ascended masters" in 1930. The movement became public in 1937 and gave birth to various groups, including the Church Universal and Triumphant.

iconic leader. Someone who is perceived as a concrete representation or *revelation of the *holy.

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