Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013)

Published: 2013-09-07

Editorial

Editors' Preface

Liselotte Frisk, Carole M. Cusack

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Articles

Strategies Among Young Jehovah’s Witnesses in Compulsory School in Sweden, Age 13–15, a Case Study

Pernilla Liedgren, Lars Andersson

3-26
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David Icke’s Reptilian Thesis and the Development of New Age Theodicy

David G. Robertson

27-47
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A Gurdjieff Genealogy Tracing the Manifold Ways the Gurdjieff Teaching Has Travelled

Johanna J. M. Petsche

49-79
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The Sacred Things of Contemporary Anglophone Atheism Celebrities, Books and Values

Cale Hubble

81-112
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On the Boundaries of Medicine and Spirituality Professionalization and Self-Regulation of Reiki in Sweden

Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell

113-138
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Book Reviews

Violence and New Religious Movements, edited by James R. Lewis. Oxford University Press. 2011. 456pp. hb., $99.00/£65.00, ISBN-13: 9780199735631; pb., $35.00/£22.50, ISBN-13: 9780199735617.

Milda Ališauskienė

139-141
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Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion, by Lola Williamson. New York University Press, 2010. 272pp., 6 b&w illustrations. £52. ISBN-13: 9780814794494.

Alp Arat

142-144
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The New Heretics of France: Minority Religions, La République, and the Government-Sponsored “War on Sects,” by Susan Palmer. Oxford University Press, 2011. 304 pp., b&w illustration, £45.00/$74.00. ISBN-13: 9780199735211.

Régis Dericquebourg

145-147
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The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, by Hugh D. Urban. Princeton University Press, 2011. 264pp., hb., $27.95. ISBN-13:9780691146089.

Marion Goldman

148-150
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Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, by David A. Palmer. Columbia University Press, 2007. 315 pp., $40.00, ISBN-13: 9780231140669.

Scott Lowe

151-153
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Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religious Movements, edited by Morgan Luck. Ashgate, 2012, 177 pp., hb., £50. ISBN-13: 9781409406532.

Alexandros Sakellariou

154-156
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The Book of Mormon: A Biography, by Paul C. Gutjahr. Princeton University Press, 2012. 280pp., 23 b&w halftones, hb., $24.95/£16.95. ISBN-13: 9780691144801.

Ingrid Sherlock-Taselaar

157-159
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