ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Western Religious Traditions1. A Family for the 21st Century James Chancellor 2. The Unification Church Sarah Lewis 3. The Controversies About Peoples Temple and Jonestown Rebecca Moore4. The Branch Davidians Gene Gallagher5. Charismatic Controversies in the Jesus People, Calvary Chapel, and Vineyard Movements Jane Skjoldli6. Kabbalah Centre: Marketing and Meaning Jody Myers 7. Controversial Afro-American Muslim OrganizationsGöran LarssonPart II: Asian and Asian-Inspired Traditions8.

The Earth School: The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness James R. Lewis9. 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 Tøllefsen11. Controversy, Cultural Influence, and the Osho/Rajneesh MovementMarion S. Goldman12. Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum Incident: A Critical Introduction Martin Repp13. Falun Gong: A Narrative of Pending Apocalypse, Shape-shifting Aliens and Relentless Persecution Helen FarleyPart III: Western Esoteric and New Age Groups14.

Scientology: The Making of a Religion Kjersti Hellesøy15. The Church Universal and Triumphant: Controversy, Change, and Continuance Jocelyn DeHass 16. The Order of the Solar TempleHenrik Bogdan 17. New Age Spiritualities Siv Ellen Kraft 18. Contemporary Paganism Manon Hedenborg White19. Popularity of--and Controversy in--Contemporary Shamanism Anne KalvigPart IV: Other Groups and Movements20. "Come on up, and I will show thee": Heaven's Gate as a Post-modern Group George D. Chryssides21.

"Those Who Came from the Sky": Ancient Astronauts and Creationism in the Raëlian Religion Erik Östling22. Wolf Age Pagans Mattias Gardell23. Carnal, Chthonian, Complicated: The Matter of Modern Satanism Jesper Aagaard PetersenIndex.