Beautifully illustrated by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford - and a seat at their table at The Eagle and Child pub. It…

This volume focuses on the formation of Falun Gong, and Li Hongzhi’s teachings about ‘spiritual warfare’, and how these have motivated practitioners to deliberately seek brutalization and martyrdom.

In the domain of religion, historically verifiable traditions coexist with recent innovations whose origins are spuriously projected back into time. This book examines the phenomenon of ‘invented traditions’ in religions…

This book begins with a comprehensive historical section that places the New Age within the context of its predecessor movements. It then focuses on specialized aspects of this subculture, from…

In this second volume, James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen bring together established and rising scholars of New Religious Movements Studies for a collection that expands upon the topics…

Full Title: "A Report of The Case in Chancery, of Thomas R. Walker, Complainant, vs. Nicholas Devereux, Rutger B. Miller, John E. Hinman, Alfred Munson, John Townsend, Nathaniel S. Benton…

Church Universal and Triumphant is a new religious movement in the Theosophical tradition. It has proved controversial for reasons connected with the purchase of illegal weapons, the construction of fallout…

This volume investigates alternative spiritualities that increasingly cater for the mainstream within the secularized society of Norway, making Norwegian-based research available to international scholarship. It looks at New Age both…