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Table of contents for the most recent issue of the International Journal for the Study of New Religions 3:2 (November 2012).
Articles:
Cracks in the Network Conversion
Paradigm
James R. Lewis
Quirky Neighbors or the Cult Next-Door? An Analysis of
Public Perceptions of the Exclusive Brethren in Australia
Bernard Doherty
The Significance and Purpose of the “Anti-Cult Movement” in
Facilitating Disaffiliation From a New Religious Movement:
Resources for Self-construction or a Justificatory Account
Dominiek Coates
Doubtful Food, Doubtful Faith: A Comparative Study of
the
Influence of Religious Maximalism on New Ideas of Food
Taboo in Some Contemporary Jewish and Muslim
Communities
Simon Theobald
Gender and Spiritual Therapy in Japan
Ioannis Gaitanidis
Book reviews:
Lives Lived and Lost,by Kaja Finkler and Golda Finkler
Reviewed by Yaakov Ariel
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou
and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo,by Margarite
Fernandez
and Lizabeth Parvisini-Gebert
Reviewed by Marzia Coltri
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society. Ethnographies of
Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania,
edited by Milda Ališauskienė and Ingo W. Schroder
Reviewed by Massimo Introvigne
Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith,by Carole M.
Cusack
Reviewed by Kevin Whitesides
The
2013 International Conference
CHANGING RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN A CHANGING WORLD
Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden
June 21-24, 2013
Term for submitting paper proposals expiring soon
Due to various requests connected to the season’s holidays, we are pushing the term for submitting paper and session proposals for CESNUR 2013 in Sweden to January
20, 2013. See the call for papers at http://www.cesnur.org/2013/swe-cfp.htm.
The location and program are very exciting and we will urge you to submit your proposals on time.
