Editors' Introduction IJSNR 1

Authors

Carole Cusack Studies in Religion A20, University of Sydney NSW 2006
Liselotte Frisk Professor, Religious Studies, Dalarna University, SE-791 88 Falun

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Carole Cusack, Studies in Religion A20, University of Sydney NSW 2006

Carole M. Cusack is Associate Professor in Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. She trained as as medievalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell,1998). She has since specialised in contemporary religion, publishing on pilgrimage and tourism, the pagan revival, new religious movements and the interface between religion and politics.
Liselotte Frisk, Professor, Religious Studies, Dalarna University, SE-791 88 Falun

Liselotte Frisk has worked at Dalarna University since 1999. She defended her doctoral thesis at Åbo Akademi in Finland in 1993. The thesis dealt with New religiosity and new religious movements, such as ISKCON (Hare Krishna), Osho movement. Siddha Yoga, TM, and Anthroposophy. She has continued to do research on these issues, and also on the New Age concept.

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