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Volume 20, Issue 4

May 2017

ISSN 1092-6690

EISSN 1541-8480

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Field Notes
Review Essays
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Announcements
Article Contributors

Scientology Issue

Scientology: From the Edges to the Core

Régis Dericquebourg

“The Third Wall of Fire”: Scientology and the Study of Religious Secrecy

Hugh B. Urban

“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

Did L. Ron Hubbard Believe in Brainwashing?: The Strange Story of the “Brain-Washing Manual” of 1955

Massimo Introvigne

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

Review Essays

Psychedelics and the Religious Experience

Chris Elcock

Through a Glass Darkly: First-Person Accounts of Scientology

Eugene V. Gallagher

Reviews

Review: A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir by Kate Bornstein

David Mihalyfy

Review: Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane

Carole M. Cusack

Review: Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman

Bernard Doherty

Review: Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige with Dan Koon

Sarah G. Chiren

Review: My Scientology Movie directed by John Dower

George D. Chryssides

Review: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief written and directed by Alex Gibney

Hugh B. Urban

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

Review: The Invention of Satanism by Asbjørn Dyrendal, James R. Lewis, and Jesper Aa. Petersen

Jackson Stephenson

Review: American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States by Sean McCloud

Benjamin D. Crace

Review: A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker

Jeff Senger

Review: After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America edited by Robert Zacharias

George Adams

Review: A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church by Choi Hee An

Song-Chong Lee

Review: The Bahá’ís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement by Mike McMullen

Moojan Momen

Review: God and Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America by Christopher Buck

Donald A. Westbrook

Review: Trungpa Photographs by Robert Del Tredici

Scott Lowe

Review: New World Dharma: Interviews and Encounters with Buddhist Teachers, Writers, and Leaders by Trevor Carolan

Manuel Lopez

Review: Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion edited by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Suha Shakkour

David Feltmate

Review: Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader by Rodney Stark, edited by Dedong Wei and Zhifeng Zhong

Benjamin Crace

Review: Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising their Children by Christel Manning

Kate Holbrook

Review: Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo by Diana Espírito Santo

Mary Ann Clark

Review: Amada’s Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas by Stacy B. Schaefer

Alexander Dawson

Review: Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion by Pamela Leong

Anthony Petro

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

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

Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez

Joseph P. Laycock

Announcements

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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