Contributors Introduction Part I: Western Religious Traditions 1. A Family for the 21st Century - James Chancellor 2. The Unification Church - Sarah Lewis 3. The Controversies About Peoples Temple and Jonestown - Rebecca Moore 4. The Branch Davidians - Gene Gallagher 5. Charismatic Controversies in the Jesus People, Calvary Chapel, and Vineyard Movements - Jane Skjoldli 6. Kabbalah Centre: Marketing and Meaning - Jody Myers 7. Controversial Afro-American Muslim Organizations -Göran Larsson Part II: Asian and Asian-Inspired Traditions 8.

The Earth School: The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness - James R. Lewis 9. Contested Genealogies and Cross-cultural Dynamics in the Hare Krishna Movement - Malcolm Haddon 10. Transcendental Meditation, the Art of Living Foundation and Public Relations: From Psychedelic Romanticism to Science and Schism - Inga Tøllefsen 11. Controversy, Cultural Influence, and the Osho/Rajneesh Movement -Marion S. Goldman 12. Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident: A Critical Introduction - Martin Repp 13. Falun Gong: A Narrative of Pending Apocalypse, Shape-shifting Aliens and Relentless Persecution - Helen Farley Part III: Western Esoteric and New Age Groups 14.

Scientology: The Making of a Religion - Kjersti Hellesøy 15. The Church Universal and Triumphant: Controversy, Change, and Continuance - Jocelyn DeHass 16. The Order of the Solar Temple - Henrik Bogdan 17. New Age Spiritualities - Siv Ellen Kraft 18. Contemporary Paganism - Manon Hedenborg White 19. Popularity of--and Controversy in--Contemporary Shamanism - Anne Kalvig Part IV: Other Groups and Movements 20. "Come on up, and I will show thee": Heaven's Gate as a Post-modern Group - George D. Chryssides 21.

"Those Who Came from the Sky": Ancient Astronauts and Creationism in the Raëlian Religion - Erik Ã-stling 22. Wolf Age Pagans - Mattias Gardell 23. Carnal, Chthonian, Complicated: The Matter of Modern Satanism - Jesper Aagaard Petersen Index.