New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion, by Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz-Hammer

Authors

  • Carole M Cusack University of Sydney / Harvard Divinity School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.31273

Keywords:

new religious movements, myth, ritual, scripture, material culture, appropriation

Abstract

New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion, by Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz-Hammer. Cambridge Elements. 2024. Pb. 72pp. $20.00. ISBN-13: 978-1-009-50074-6 (Hb.); 978-1-009-01459-5 (Pb.)

Author Biography

  • Carole M Cusack, University of Sydney / Harvard Divinity School

    Carole M. Cusack is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She researches and teaches on contemporary religious trends (including pilgrimage and tourism, modern Pagan religions, NRMs, and religion and popular culture). Her books include Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010) and (with Katharine Buljan) Anime, Religion, and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan (Equinox, 2015). In 2016 she became Editor of Fieldwork in Religion, and she is also Editor of Literature & Aesthetics (journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics).

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Published

2024-11-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)

Section

Book Reviews

License

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How to Cite

Cusack, C. M. (2024). New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion, by Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz-Hammer. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 13(1), 93–95. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.31273