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Volume 20, Issue 4
May 2017
Nova Religio Cover Image for Volume 20, Issue 4
ISSN 1092-6690
EISSN 1541-8480

Scientology Issue

Scientology: From the Edges to the Core
Régis Dericquebourg
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“The Third Wall of Fire”: Scientology and the Study of Religious Secrecy
Hugh B. Urban
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“The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend”: Thomas Szasz, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, and Scientology’s Anti-Psychiatric Theology
Donald A. Westbrook
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Did L. Ron Hubbard Believe in Brainwashing?: The Strange Story of the “Brain-Washing Manual” of 1955
Massimo Introvigne
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Field Notes

Staying after Class: Memory and Materiality beyond Heaven’s Gate; Report on the New Religious Movements Group Methods Meeting, 21 November 2014
Megan Goodwin
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Review Essays

Psychedelics and the Religious Experience
Chris Elcock
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Through a Glass Darkly: First-Person Accounts of Scientology
Eugene V. Gallagher
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Reviews

Review: A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir by Kate Bornstein
David Mihalyfy
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Review: Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane
Carole M. Cusack
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Review: Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman
Bernard Doherty
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Review: Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige with Dan Koon
Sarah G. Chiren
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Review: My Scientology Movie directed by John Dower
George D. Chryssides
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Review: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief written and directed by Alex Gibney
Hugh B. Urban
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Review: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill with Lisa Pulitzer, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, “Scientology: A War without Guns.” ABC Television 20/20
Catherine Wessinger
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Review: The Invention of Satanism by Asbjørn Dyrendal, James R. Lewis, and Jesper Aa. Petersen
Jackson Stephenson
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Review: American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States by Sean McCloud
Benjamin D. Crace
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Review: A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker
Jeff Senger
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Review: After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America edited by Robert Zacharias
George Adams
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Review: A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church by Choi Hee An
Song-Chong Lee
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Review: The Bahá’ís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement by Mike McMullen
Moojan Momen
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Review: God and Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America by Christopher Buck
Donald A. Westbrook
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Review: Trungpa Photographs by Robert Del Tredici
Scott Lowe
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Review: New World Dharma: Interviews and Encounters with Buddhist Teachers, Writers, and Leaders by Trevor Carolan
Manuel Lopez
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Review: Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion edited by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Suha Shakkour
David Feltmate
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Review: Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader by Rodney Stark, edited by Dedong Wei and Zhifeng Zhong
Benjamin Crace
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Review: Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising their Children by Christel Manning
Kate Holbrook
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Review: Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo by Diana Espírito Santo
Mary Ann Clark
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Review: Amada’s Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas by Stacy B. Schaefer
Alexander Dawson
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Review: Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion by Pamela Leong
Anthony Petro
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Review: Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery” … edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. Brill
Jeffrey E. Anderson
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Review: The New Age in the Modern West: Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day by Nicholas Campion
Susannah Crockford
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Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Joseph P. Laycock
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Announcements

Association for the Academic Study of New Religions
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Nova Religio and the World Religions and Spirituality Project
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Article Contributors

Article Contributors
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