%0 Journal Article
%T The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America
%J Sociology of religion
%D 1993
%A Harper, Beau
%A Harper, Beau
%V 54
%N 2
%P 171-192
%X 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 />
%G 
%I Association for the Sociology of Religion
%@ 1069-4404
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3712138