TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America
JO  - Sociology of religion
A1  - Harper, Beau
A1  - Harper, Beau
SP  - 171
EP  - 192
VL  - 54
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1069-4404
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3712138
ID  - ref1
ER  -