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Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism by Sally M. Promey
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Retour au Judaïsme: Les Loubavitch en France [Return to Judaism: The Lubavitch in France] by Laurence Podselver
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The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman, eds.
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Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion by Michael York
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Alternative Christs by Olav Hammer, ed.
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The Study of Religion Under the Impact of Fascism by Horst Junginger, ed.
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Introduction
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Spirituality and the Occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age by B.J. Gibbons
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The Alternative Religiosity Market: Visit to an Esoteric Fair
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Gatherings and fairs promoting alternative beliefs, practices and lifestyles offer a privileged environment for observing the cultic milieu and its functioning. Most people interested in such topics do never join an organized alternative religious group. Written in 1999, this article is based on observations gleaned at a fair that takes place in Zurich every year since 1989. It shows the developments that intervened between the first and second shows (1989 and 1990) and the 10th gathering in 1998. This illustrated how the field has continued to widen, with an increasing diversity of practices and techniques offered. The article observes howvarious reasons lead practitioners to combine techniques and teachings. It also observes a pervading ambivalence toward modernity and the recourse to exotic cultures as a source of relief for Westerners.
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Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco by Jone Salomonsen
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The Baha’i Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962 by Anthony A. Lee
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Key Scholarly Works on the Origins of the New Thought and Christian Science Movements: A Critical Assessment
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In this article, I examine central academic writings on the New Thought and Christian Science movements, concentrating on the scholarly treatment of these movements’ origins and influences. Using a comparative approach, I draw out key questions in these works, both explicit and implicit, with special attention to the role of spiritualism in these movements’ origins. I conclude by briefly discussing my findings and identifying mandates for further research on metaphysical movements.
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Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes
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Heaven's Gate. Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group by George D. Chryssides, ed.
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Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation by Adam Yuet Chau, ed.
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Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Revised Edition by David Chidester
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Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition by Alison Butler
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Toward a Paradigm for Longitudinal Studies: A Case Study of the Order of Christ Sophia
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In 2005, 2008 and 2011, demographic questionnaires were administered to the membership of the Order of Christ Sophia, a small new religion in the tradition of the Holy Order of MANS. Findings from these surveys are presented and discussed in terms of the parameters laid out by Lorne Dawson in his 2003 summary of NRM conversion research, ‘Who Joins New Religions and Why: Twenty Years of Research and What Have We Learned?’ In addition to analyzing the changes that have taken place in the Order from 2005 to 2011, the research project is presented as a paradigm for conducting longitudinal studies of other new religious movements in the future.
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Contemporary Paganism: Fifteen Years Later
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The Pagan Census (PC) was conducted between 1993 and 1995, while the Pagan Census Revisited (PCR) was conducted in 2009-10. Though not ‘censuses’ in the proper sense, these two data sets represent the best quantitative information we have on contemporary Paganism. Contrasting the PCR with the PC indicates that much has remained the same, especially with regard to general demographic profile. The most dramatic change in the past fifteen years is the increase in the proportion of Pagans who practice alone.
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