@article{ref1,
title="The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America",
journal="Sociology of religion",
year="1993",
author="Harper, Beau and Harper, Beau",
volume="54",
number="2",
pages="171-192",
abstract="This article is about the movement-environment relationships of American marginal religious movements. It adds to the literature about the tensions surrounding contemporary movements by utilizing evidence from a historically broad range of cases, and by more broadly conceptualizing the conflict that surrounds them as existing within a range of social adaptation possibilities. Two temporal patterns of social adaptation for movements in America society are suggested. Within the context of a modified societal reaction framework we suggest characteristics of movements and the varieties of opposition and oppositional coalitions that are likely to result in different positive and negative locations on a social adaptation continuum. The relationship between social adaptation and the longer-term survival and success of marginal religious movements is discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="1069-4404",
doi="10.2307/3712138",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3712138"
}