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Nova Religio presents scholarly interpretations and examinations of alternative religious movements. Original research, perspectives on the studies of new religions, literature reviews, and conference updates keep religious studies scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians up to date and well informed on a wide range of topics including:
- Ancient Wisdom and New Age groups
- New movements within established religious traditions
- Alternative Christian religions
- New Jewish movements
- Religious organizations based on Asian teachings
- New religious movements from the Middle East
- African, African American, and Black movements
- Immigrant religions in Diaspora
The journal contributes to understanding unconventional religions in their particularities and in relation to the larger social contexts in which they are situated. Nova Religio is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in scope.
Subscription provides free access to all back issues.
Volume 12, Number 1, August 2008
Raphaël Voix, Denied Violence, Glorified Fighting: Spiritual Discipline and Controversy in Ananda Marga
Helen Crovetto, Ananda Marga and the Use of Force
Moojan Momen, Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852
Kirsten Bell, Pilgrims and Progress: The Production of Religious Experience in a Korean Religion
Kenny Smith, Field Notes: "You've Been Wonderful Neighbors": Key Factors in the Successful Integration of a Wiccan Coven into a Suburban Community in the Southeastern United States
Conference Updates
Irén E. Annus, Review Essay: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Reviews (Go to the archive for a complete list of reviews in 12, no. 1.)

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5th Annual Thomas Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements
First prize of $500 to Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Shûkyô Asobi and Miyazaki Hayao's Anime," in vol. 10, no. 3 (February 2007).
Second prize of $250 to Lynn P. Eldershaw, "Collective Identity and the Postcharismatic Fate of Shambhala International," in vol. 10, no. 4 (May 2007).
For previous Robbins Awards, click here. |
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