The aim of this book is to examine the status of tradition in the contemporary world, through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a 'post-traditional society' using as a case-study, the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation, a millenarian South Asian New Religious Movement. It studies the ways in which forms of tradition not only persist but also flourish in the contemporary world, and the manner ...
