In the Name of God: Examining how religious belief and practice influences violent behaviours within NRMs through the study of politically violent gro

尽管宗教社会学对新宗教运动(NRM)感兴趣，但暴力的发生及其原因一直被低估。因此，有必要研究宗教信仰和实践、组织和权威形式、与社会环境的互动以及可能还有其他因素的综合方面如何促成集体暴力事件。与宗教本身类似，这些群体并不是孤立于其社会环境中存在的，而是作为社会环境的不同方面而存在的，因此，必须在犯罪学理论的范围内审查这些群体从事的暴力行为。

Despite an interest for New Religious Movements (NRMs) within the sociology of religion, the occurrence of violence and its causes has been under-theorised. There is therefore a need to research how combined aspects of religious belief and practice, forms of organisation and authority, interactions with the social environment and perhaps other factors, may contribute towards instances of group violence. Similarly to religion itself, these groups do not exist in isolation from their social environment, but rather as a differing aspect of it and, as such, violent behaviours which these groups engage in must be examined within the context of criminological theory.