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.