Editors' Preface

Author Biographies

• Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney

  Associate Professor University of Sydney Editor, Journal of Religious History

• Liselotte Frisk, Dalarna University

  Liselotte Frisk is Professor in Religious Studies at Högskolan Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden. Her doctoral dissertation (Åbo Akademi 1993) dealt with new religious movements, conversion/engagement, and relation to society. She was a lecturer at Umeå University for five years, before moving in 1999 to Högskolan Dalarna University. She became Associate Professor at Åbo Akademi in 2001, and a full Professor at Högskolan Dalarna University from 2006. She has been conducting several research projects; two on New Age, one on how new religious movements develop over time, and one on local religious activities in Dalarna, a region of Sweden. She has published two academic books in Swedish on New Age and new religious movements, and several articles and chapters in English and Swedish. She has been the chair of FINYAR, a research association for scholars of new religious movements in Sweden, since 2003. In 2009 she became chair of the International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR), and the editor (with Olav Hammer, Syddansk University) of Aura: Nordic Journal for the Study of New Religiosity (Nordic languages). She is also editor (with Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney) of the International Journal for the Study of New Religions (Equinox).