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Volume 18, Issue 4

May 2015

ISSN 1092-6690

EISSN 1541-8480

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New Religious Movements in Oceania

Garry W. Trompf

Heirs to Biblical Prophecy: The All Peoples Prayer Assembly in Solomon Islands

Jaap Timmer

Marian Movements and Secessionist Warfare in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Anna-Karina Hermkens

Conversion to Islam in Papua New Guinea: Preserving Traditional Culture against Modernity’s Cargo-Cult Mentality

Scott Flower

Polynesians and Mormonism: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the “Islands of the Sea”

Paul Morris

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Conference Updates

John M. Bozeman

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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

Allison P. Coudert

Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival

Ethan Doyle White

The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures

Joseph Laycock

Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises

Eric N. Newberg

Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town in Iowa

Brooke Sherrard

Healing in the Homeland: Haïtian Vodou Tradition

Alessandra Benedicty

The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception

Courtney Tepera

Radiance from Halcyon: A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science

Benjamin E. Zeller

Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism

‘Biodun J. Ogundayo

Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan

Darren E. Lund

The Development of the Babi/Baha’i Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen’s Archives.

Christopher Buck

Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space

Courtney Tepera

Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace

Lola Williamson

The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

Mary Ann Clark

A Study of the Movement of Spiritual Awareness: Religious Innovation and Cultural Change

George Adams

Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy

Susannah Crockford

Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression: Dreamers, Believers, and Madmen

Brian J. L. Berry

The Mormon Quest for Glory: The Religious World of the Latter-day Saints

Nicholas Pellegrino

The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements

Phillip Charles Lucas

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Association for the Academic Study of New Religions

Nova Religio and the World Religions and Spirituality Project

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Women’s Leadership in New Religions and the Question of Gender Equality in Post-Communist Lithuania

Religious Leadership in New Religions: Theoretical and Empirical Trajectories

Review: Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States, by Hillary Kaell

Review: Negotiating Science and Religion in America: Past, Present, and Future, by Greg Cootsona

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