"New Religious Movements" (and “Cults” and “Denominations”) | Kegan Chandler

What is a New Religious Movement (NRM)? How does this category relate to the popular word "cult"? In this episode, Dr. Kegan Chandler traces the history of these categories and offers a simple, pragmatic definition of "New Religious Movement" which is able to describe groups as neutrally as possible while avoiding marginalizing connotations which favor the dominant institutions of society. Main image credit: 'Religion Vectors by Vecteezy'- https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/... Conference lecture on the term "cult" in the context of unitarian vs. trinitarian debates: "Cult-Rhetoric and Unitarian Christology" (2024):    • Kegan Chandler - Cult-Rhetoric and Unitari...   https://x.com/KeganChandler https://keganchandler.com