The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements Volume II

by Lewis, James R.; Tollefsen, Inga B.

• ISBN13: 9780190466176
• ISBN10: 0190466170
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-05-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø (Norway). He currently co-edits three book series and is the general editor for the Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review. Recent publications include: (with Henrik Bogdan) Sexuality and New Religious Movements (2014), (with Carole Cusack) Sacred Suicide (2014), (with Bengt-Ove Andressen) Textbook Gods (2014), Sects & Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members (2014), (with Siv Ellen Kraft and Trude Fonneland) Nordic Neoshamanisms (2015), and (with Inga B. Tøllefsen) The Brill Handbook of Nordic New Religions (2015).

Inga B. Tøllefsen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tromsø (Norway). Her main research interest is NRMs and gender, and her thesis work focuses on gender in the the Amma movement, as well as other Hindu-inspired global meditation movements. She has published several articles on the Art of Living Foundation, and she is a co-editor of several anthologies, such as Nordic New Religions (with James R. Lewis), and Female Leaders in New Religious Movements (with Christian Giudice).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction - James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen, Eds.

PART I - Social-Scientific Approaches
1. Categorizing Religious Organizations: In Search of a Theoretically Meaningful Strategy - David G. Bromley
2. Conversion - George D. Chryssides
3. Charisma and Authority in New Religious Movements - Erin Prophet, Rice University,
4. Disaffiliation and New Religious Movements - Sean Currie
5. Seekers and Subcultures - James R. Lewis
6. Quantitative Approaches to New Religions - Margrethe Loov
7. Psychology and New Religious Movements - John A. Saliba
8. As It Was in the Beginning: Developmental Moments in the Emergence of New Religions - David Bromley

PART II - Controversy
9. The North American Anti-Cult Movement - Anson Shupe
10. The Christian Countercult Movement - Douglas E. Cowan
11. Legal Dimensions of New Religions - James T. Richardson
12. Brainwashing and "Cultic Mind Control" - James R. Lewis
13. From Jonestown to 9/11 and Beyond: Mapping the Contours of Violence and New Religious Movements - Rebecca Moore
14. Conspiracy Theories and New Religious Movements - Asbjorn Dyrendal
15. Satanic Ritual Abuse - James R. Lewis
16. Cult Journalism - Nicole S. Ruskell & James R. Lewis

PART III - Themes
17. Invention in 'New New' Religions - Carole M. Cusack
18. Children in New Religions - Sanja Nilsson
19. Media, Technology, and New Religious Movements: A Review of the Field - Shannon Schorey
20. New Religions and Science - Jeremy Rapport
21. Gender and New Religions - Inga Tollefsen
22. Sex and New Religions - Megan Goodwin
23. Occulture and Everyday Enchantment - Chris Partridge

PART IV - Religious Studies Approaches
24. Rituals and Ritualization in New Religions - Mikael Rothstein
25. The Mythic Dimensions of New Religious Movements: Function, Reality Construction, and Process - Diana Tumminia
26. Religious Experiences in New Religious Movements - Olav Hammer
27. New Religious Movements and Scripture - Eugene Gallagher
28. Material Religion - Jessica Moberg
29. Hagiography: A Note on the Narrative Exaltation of Sect Leaders and Heads of New Religions - Mikael Rothstein
30. Millennialism: New Religious Movements and the Quest for a New Age - Jean-Francois Mayer

PART V - Subfields of Study
31. What Does God need with a Starship? UFOs and Extraterrestrials in the Contemporary Religious Landscape - Erik Ostling
32. Late Modern Shamanism in a Norwegian Context: Global Networks - Local Grounds - Trude Fonneland
33. Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions - Jesper Aagaard Petersen & Cimminnee Holt
34. Western Esotericism and New Religious Movements - Henrik Bogdan
35 The New Age - Liselotte Frisk, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus & Siv Ellen Kraft
36. The Study of Paganism and Wicca: A Review Essay - Kaarina Aitamurto & Scott Simpson
37. Native American Prophet Religions - James R. Lewis & Ellen Dobrowolski

Index