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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.

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Volume 12, Number 4, May 2009

Association for the Academic Study of New Religions

Stuart A. Wright, Reframing Religious Violence after 9/11: Analysis of the ACM Campaign to Exploit the Threat of Terrorism

Kennet Granholm, Left-Hand Path Magic and Animal Rights

William L. Pitts Jr.,Women Leaders in the Davidian and Branch Davidian Traditions

Jon R. Stone, Prophecy and Dissonance: A Reassessment of Research Testing the Festinger Theory

Qi Liu, Field Notes: A Close Look into an Immigrant Workers' Church in Beijing

Conference Updates

Dereck Daschke, Review Essay: Millennial Studies for the New Millennium

Reviews (Go to the archive for a complete list of reviews in 12, no. 4.)

6th Annual Thomas Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements Co-First Place Winners of $375 each are: Mark Sedgwick, "Jihad, Modernity, and Sectarianism," in vol. 11, no. 2 (November 2007): 6-27; and Peter Staudenmaier, "Race and Redemption: Ethnic and Racial Evolution in Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy," in vol. 11, no. 3 (February 2008): 4-36. For previous Robbins Awards, click here.