Introduction / James R. Lewis and Sarah Lewis
Part I: Theoretical overview
Understanding schisms : theoretical explanations for their origins / Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle
Part II: Survey of schisms in selected traditions
Charismatic authority in Islam : an analysis of the cause of schisms in the ummah / Ron Geaves
Schisms in Buddhism / Alan Cole
Schisms in Japanese new religious movements / Robert Kisala
Part III: Christian traditions
Finishing the mystery : the watch tower and 'the 1917 schism' / George D. Chryssides
Challenges to charismatic authority in the unificationist movement / David G. Bromley and Rachel S. Bobbitt
Persecution and schismogenesis : how a penitential crisis over mass apostasy facilitated the triumph of Catholic Christianity in the Roman Empire / Joseph M. Bryant
Part IV: Western esoteric traditions
Church universal and triumphant : shelter, succession and schism / Susan J. Palmer and Michael Abravanel
Schism and consolidation : the case of the theosophical movement / Olav Hammer
Satanists and nuts : the role of schisms in modern satanism / Jesper Aagaard Petersen
Schism as midwife : how conflict aided the birth of a contemporary pagan community / Murphy Pizza
Part V: Non-western/postcolonial traditions
Succession, religious switching, and schism in the Hare Krishna Movement / E. Burke Rochford, Jr.
Schisms within Hindu guru groups : the Transcendental Meditation movement in North America / Cynthia Ann Humes
Schism in Babylon : colonialism, Afro-Christianity, and Rastafari / Christopher Partridge.
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