The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromso (Norway). He currently co-edits three book series and is the general editor for the Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review. Recent publications include: (with Henrik Bogdan) Sexuality and New Religious Movements (2014), (with Carole Cusack) Sacred Suicide (2014), (with Bengt-Ove Andressen) Textbook Gods (2014), Sects & Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members (2014), (with Siv Ellen Kraft and Trude Fonneland) Nordic Neoshamanisms (2015), and (with Inga Bardsen Tollefsen) The Brill Handbook of Nordic New Religions (2015).Inga Bardsen Tollefsen is a PhD student at the University of Tromso (Norway). Her main research interest is NRMs and gender, and her thesis work focuses on gender in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission, as well as other Hindu-inspired global meditation movements. She has published several articles on the Art of Living Foundation, and she is a co-editor of several anthologies, such as Nordic New Religions (with James R. Lewis), and Female Leaders in New Religious Movements (with Christian Giudice).

• List of ContributorsIntroduction - James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen, Eds. PART I - Social-Scientific Approaches1. Categorizing Religious Organizations: In Search of a Theoretically Meaningful Strategy - David G. Bromley2. Conversion - George D. Chryssides3. 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. Lewis6. Quantitative Approaches to New Religions - Margrethe Loov7. Psychology and New Religious Movements - John A. Saliba8. 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 Shupe10. 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. Lewis16. Cult Journalism - Nicole S. Ruskell & James R. Lewis PART III - Themes 17. Invention in 'New New' Religions - Carole M. Cusack18. Children in New Religions - Sanja Nilsson19. Media, Technology, and New Religious Movements: A Review of the Field - Shannon Schorey 20. New Religions and Science - Jeremy Rapport21. Gender and New Religions - Inga Tollefsen 22. Sex and New Religions - Megan Goodwin23. Occulture and Everyday Enchantment - Chris Partridge PART IV - Religious Studies Approaches24. Rituals and Ritualization in New Religions - Mikael Rothstein25. 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 Rothstein30. Millennialism: New Religious Movements and the Quest for a New Age - Jean-Francois Mayer PART V - Subfields of Study31. What Does God need with a Starship? UFOs and Extraterrestrials in the Contemporary Religious Landscape - Erik Ostling32. Late Modern Shamanism in a Norwegian Context: Global Networks - Local Grounds - Trude Fonneland33. Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions - Jesper Aagaard Petersen & Cimminnee Holt 34. Western Esotericism and New Religious Movements - Henrik Bogdan35 The New Age - Liselotte Frisk, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus & Siv Ellen Kraft36. The Study of Paganism and Wicca: A Review Essay - Kaarina Aitamurto & Scott Simpson37. Native American Prophet Religions - James R. Lewis & Ellen Dobrowolski Index

Enhanced by excellent notes, bibliography, and index...[the Handbook's] coverage is quite astonishing and why not, since the rise of new religious movements as well as scholarly interest in them is also quite astonishing.