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81. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Nicholas M. Levine Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin
82. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Mark Chapman Orcid-ID God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis by Philip Jenkins
83. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Scott Lowe Prophets and Protons: New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth Century America by Benjamin E. Zeller
84. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Andrew Stuart Abel Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, ed.
85. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Michael Paul Oman-Reagan Orcid-ID Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man by Lee Gilmore
86. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
George D. Chryssides Chanting in the Hillsides: The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin in Wales and the Borders by Jeaneane Fowler and Merv Fowler
87. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Jeremy Rapport An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community by Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell
88. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Stephanie Martin Coming to the Edge of the Circle: A Wiccan Initiation Ritual by Nikki Bado-Fralick
89. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Michael (Anthony) Costabile Gurus in America by Thomas A. Forsthoefel and Cynthia Ann Humes, eds.
90. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 1 > Issue: 2
Sean O’Callaghan Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism by Joseph Laycock
91. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Carole M. Cusack Orcid-ID Hsun Chang and Benjamin Penny, Religion in Taiwan and China: Locality and Transmission
92. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Carole M. Cusack Orcid-ID Tobias Churton, Deconstructing Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician
93. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Carole M. Cusack Orcid-ID Stephen Edred Flowers, The Northern Dawn: A History of the Reawakening of the Germanic Spirit, Volume 1, revised edition
94. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Bernard Doherty Carole M. Cusack and Helen Farley, eds. Religion, The Occult, and the Paranormal
95. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Stefan Fisher-Høyrem Michael Rectenwald, Nineteenth-Century British Secularism: Science, Religion and Literature
96. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Ajay Dave Sumantra Bose, Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism
97. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Suvarna Variyar Arshia Sattar, translator, Valmiki’s Ramayana
98. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Suvarna Variyar Arshia Sattar, translator, Valmiki’s Uttara Kanda: The Book of Answers
99. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro Historians as Storytellers: A Critical Examination of New Age Religion’s Scholarly Historiography
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This study makes a bold statement on the problematic nature of historic academic research, and its implications on our understanding of religion and culture. The case study is New Age religion’s scholarly historiography. It appears that New Age religion plays a part within narrative imagination, which often contains moral allusions as to the heroes or antiheroes, as well as literary allusions to the causal sources of events or to expected developments. We review the conflicts that arise between utterly differing opinions in some of the field’s fundamental issues, and thus evoke several of the challenges historical research on NA faces: when did it debut on the historical stage? Which ideological movements did it draw upon? Who are its unmistakable heralds? Did it already reach the height of its strength, and if so, when? The survey of scholarly studies indicates that the history of New Age is ever-changing. Thus, we argue that though historic discussion may deepen the analysis of a religious phenomenon and its understanding and give it context and meaning—it cannot decipher it. We cannot rely on history in defining a phenomenon, in attempting to comprehend its essence, its power, its importance, and most certainly not its future.
100. Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review: Volume > 10 > Issue: 1
Xinzhang Zhang, George A. Dunn Spiritual Movements, Secret Societies, and Destructive Cults: Panel Discussion, Hangzhou, October 2017
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During September 22–24, 2017, Zhejiang University hosted an International Symposium on the Theoretical and Practical Issues of Faiths in the Construction of the Community of Common Destiny for All Mankind in Hangzhou, China. In the course of this conference, six scholars from Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China participated in an interdisciplinary panel discussion about “Spiritual Movements, Secret Societies, and Destructive Cults.” Covering such topics as the general spiritual situation of the contemporary world, the religious marketplace, the dangerous tendencies within some religious movements, and the role of the state in relation to religious communities, the discussion concludes with an examination of the conflict of Falun Gong with the Chinese government and the faults of the group’s leadership that brought the conflict to a head. The discussion offers a fruitful combination of theoretical insights and concrete case studies that provides a wide and deep purview of our present spiritual situation, setting forth both its dangers and its positive potential. This paper is a transcript of the panel discussion, with a brief introduction identifying its highlights.