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Volume 21, Issue 4

May 2018

ISSN 1092-6690

EISSN 1541-8480

In this Issue

Reframing the History of New Religious Movements

Michael Driedger, Johannes C. Wolfart

New Religious Movements before Modernity?: Considerations from a Historical Perspective

Andreas Pietsch, Sita Steckel

Thinking inside the Cages: Norman Cohn, Anabaptist Münster, and Polemically Inspired Assumptions about Apocalyptic Violence

Michael Driedger

Increasing Religious Diversity: Historiographical Criticism of a Current Paradigm

Johannes C. Wolfart

Perspective

An Initial Response to the Call for Reframing the History of New Religious Movements

J. Gordon Melton

Review Essay

Experiencing New Religions

David Feltmate

Reviews

Review: Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović

Massimo Introvigne

Review: Gurdjieff and Music: The Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Piano Music and Its Esoteric Significance by Johanna J. M. Petsche

Constance A. Jones

Review: Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age by Mark Sedgwick

Phillip Charles Lucas

Review: Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Patricia Barker Lerch

Review: Isaiah Shembe’s Hymns and the Sacred Dance in Ibandla LamaNazaretha by Nkosinathi Sithole

Hugh Hodges

Review: Refiguring the Body: Embodiment in South Asian Religions edited by Barbara A. Holdrege and Karen Pechilis

John M. Thompson

Review: A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Emily Suzanne Clark

Kelly E. Hayes

Review: Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat

Jeffrey E. Anderson

Review: New Age in Latin America: Popular Variations and Ethnic Appropriations edited by Renée de la Torre, Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga, and Nahayeilli Juárez Huet

Susannah Crockford

Review: The Gnostic New Age: How A Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today by April D. DeConick

Dawn Hutchinson

Review: The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against Religious Minorities by Jonathan Fox

James T. Richardson

Review: The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11 edited by Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman

Eugene V. Gallagher

Review: Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman

Scott Lowe

Review: Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Matthew Bowman

Review: Satanism: A Social History by Massimo Introvigne

Eugene V. Gallagher

Review: Planète Bleue Télévision, prod., Occult Crimes. 2015. Television series, ten episodes

Joseph P. Laycock

Review: Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds by Leo Braudy

Matthew Bowman

Review: Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers

Michael E. Heyes

Review: Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History by Gregory A. Prince

Christopher Jones

Review: Horse-and-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World by Royden Loewen

Elizabeth Cooksey

Review: Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

David Redles

Review: Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America by Douglas Osto and Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis by Mark S. Ferrara

Chris Elcock

In Memoriam: Jane Williams-Hogan

In Memoriam: Jane Williams-Hogan

Massimo Introvigne

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Review: Reclaiming the Wilderness: Contemporary Dynamics of the Yiguandao, by Sébastien Billioud

Review: The Waco Branch Davidian Tragedy: What Have We Learned or Not Learned, Produced by J. Phillip Arnold and Directed by Minji Lee

Review: Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement, by Nicole Karapanagiotis

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