ROBERT ELLWOOD. 108 Gray Tuttle ... 128 Douglas E. Cowan, Bearing False Witness? ... 131 Robert E. Orsi, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious.
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NOVA RELIGIO The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions Volume 13, Number 3, February 2010
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The Thomas Robbins Award G ORDON S HEPHERD
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New Religions and Community G ORDON S HEPHERD
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The Evolution of American Spiritual Communities, 1965–2009 T IMOTHY M ILLER
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Sex and Conflict in New Religious Movements: A Comparison of the Oneida Community under John Humphrey Noyes and the Early Mormons under Joseph Smith and his Would-Be Successors L AWRENCE F OSTER
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The Twelve Tribes: Preparing the Bride for Yahshua’s Return S USAN PALMER
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The Neo-Hindu Transformation of an Iowa Town S COTT L OWE
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Conference Updates J OHN B OZEMAN
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New Perspectives on Western Esotericism H ENRIK B OGDAN
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Reviews 106 James R. Lewis and Jesper Aagard Petersen, eds., Controversial New Religions G EORGE A DAMS
107 Anita Maria Leopold and Jeppe Sinding Jensen, eds., Syncretism in Religion: A Reader R OBERT E LLWOOD
108 Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China A MOS Y ONG
110 Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, ed., Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World M ARY A NN C LARK
111 Stuart Rose, Transforming the World: Bringing the New Age into Focus G EORGE A DAMS
112 Erik Davis, Photos by Michael Rauner, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape R OBERT E LLWOOD
114 Michael A. Hayes, New Religious Movements in the Catholic Church G EORGE A DAMS
114 Gregory C. Stanczak, Engaged Spirituality: Social Change and American Religion E LIJAH S IEGLER
116 George D. Chryssides and Ron Geaves, The Study of Religion: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods G EORGE A DAMS
117 J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena D AVID TABB S TEWART
119 Joanne Pearson, Wicca and the Christian Heritage: Ritual, Sex and Magic A DRIAN H ARRIS 2
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120 Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy, Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self C HAS S. C LIFTON
123 Henrik Bogdan, Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation N ICHOLAS G OODRICK -C LARKE
124 Mark Juergensmeyer, Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda A NSON S HUPE
126 Robert Ellwood, Understanding Japanese Religion I AN R EADER
128 Douglas E. Cowan, Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Countercult W. M ICHAEL A SHCRAFT
131 Robert E. Orsi, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them G LENN Y OUNG
132 David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power P ETER C HEN -M AIN WANG
134 Philip Jenkins, God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis M ARK S EDGWICK
Article Contributors The Co-General Editors of Nova Religio would like to thank Professors Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd for guest editing this special issue devoted to the study of communal movements in the United States. We are proud to publish this examination of this important topic in the field of new religious movements 3
