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James R. Lewis is Professor at the University of Tromso. His most recent books include Sacred Schisms (edited with Sarah Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Children of Jesus and Mary (with Nicolas Levine, Oxford University Press, 2010). He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements.

• Preface Introduction I. Quasi-longitudinal Approaches 1. Whatever Happened to Youthful Converts? 2. Social Networks and Conversion II. Three Styles of Longitudinal Research 3. Increasing Complexity vs. Prior Generalizations: Census Data and Longitudinal Approaches 4. Toward a Paradigm for Longitudinal Studies: The Order of Christ Sophia 5. The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness: Demographic Patterns, 1998-2011 III. Mixed Method Approaches 6. Demise of the Teen Witch Fad 7. Who Serves Satan? 8. NRMs and Gender - The Case of Scientology IV. Ex-Members 9. Post-Involvement Attitudes 10. Member vs. Ex-member Profiles Afterword: Directions for Future Research Appendix: Anglophone Census and National Survey Data on NRMs

'The book has an important contribution to make to the study of NRMs.' Helen A. Berger, Brandeis University