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Volume 20, Issue 3
February 2017
Nova Religio Cover Image for Volume 20, Issue 3
ISSN 1092-6690
EISSN 1541-8480
In this Issue
Editors’ Note
Scott Lowe, Catherine Wessinger, Benjamin E. Zeller
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Fourteenth Annual Thomas Robbins Award: For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements
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The Helen Crovetto Award: For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements with Ties to South Asia
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Introduction: New Religions in Eastern Europe: New Forms, Recent Developments
Milda Ališauskienė
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Baltic Paganism in Lithuanian Neoshamanic Communities: Neoshamanic Interpretations of a Local Indo-European Religious Tradition
Eglė Aleknaitė
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A Catholic Pyramid?: Locating the Pyramid of Merkinė within the Religious Landscape of Lithuania
Milda Ališauskienė
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Survival Strategies of New Religions in a Secular Consumer Society: A Case Study from Estonia
Ringo Ringvee
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“What if it is actually true?”: Vissarion’s Followers from Eastern Europe and their Path to the Last Testament Church Community in Siberia
Joanna Urbańczyk
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Field Note

Hit Gyülekezete: A Sectarian State Megachurch in Hungary
Holly Folk
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Reviews

Review: The Invention of Religion: Desecularization in the Post-Soviet Context[Russian] edited by Zhanna Kormina, Aleksander A. Panchenko, and Sergei Shtyrkov
Ksenia Kolkunova
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Review: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: A Church of Strangers by Ilana van Wyk
Justin Michael Doran
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Review: Intervenir auprès de sectes religieuses en protection de la jeunesse. Un défi by Lorraine Derocher
Régis Dericquebourg
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Review: Beyond RastafarI: An Historical and Theological Introduction by Marzia Anna Coltri
Darren J. N. Middleton
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Review: American Gurus: From American Transcendentalism to New Age Religion by Arthur Versluis
Glenn Young
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Review: A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims Before 1975 by Patrick D. Bowen
Jacob Hicks
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Review: Botánicas: Sacred Spaces of Healing and Devotion in Urban America by Joseph M. Murphy
Lindsay Hale
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Review: American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement by Jennifer Snook
Christopher A. Plaisance
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Review: Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction by Julie J. Ingersoll
Mary Beth S. Mathews
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Review: Women in New Religions by Laura Vance
Mary Farrell Bednarowski
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Review: Women in Japanese Religions by Barbara Ambros
Wilburn Hansen
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Review: Minority Religions and Fraud: In Good Faith edited by Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
Ian Reader
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Review: Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religious Communities by Stuart A. Wright and Susan J. Palmer
Eugene V. Gallagher
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Review: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography by Michael Hicks
IréN E. Annus
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Review: Moroni and the Swastika by David Conley Nelson
Steven Carter
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Review: The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism edited by Terryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow
Thomas Murphy
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Review: The Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity edited by Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen
Christopher James Blythe
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Review: Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 by Benjamin C. Ray
Nancy Lusignan Schultz
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Book Notes

Review: Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies edited by Judith Simmer-Brown and Fran Grace
Eugene V. Gallagher
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Review: The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History edited by Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst
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Review: Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives edited by Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman
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Review: Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage edited by Holly Welker
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Review: Understanding Jihad, second edition by David Cook
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Review: Hair by Scott Lowe
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Article Contributors

Article Contributors
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Association for the Academic Study of New Religions
Black Secular Humanism and Its Significance for Contemporary Methodologies in Religious Studies
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