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  1. Editors' Note: Our Gratitude to Deborah Halter
  2. Marie W. Dallam, Joseph Laycock, Catherine Wessinger, Benjamin E. Zeller
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  1. Sixteenth Annual Thomas Robbins Award: For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements
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  1. The Helen Crovetto Award: For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements with Ties to South Asia
  3. p. 7
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  1. Blasphemy as Bhāvana: Anti-Christianity in a New Buddhist Movement
  2. Jeff Wilson
  3. pp. 8-35
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  1. Finding Religion, Spirituality, and Flow in Movement: An Ethnography of Value of the Hula Hooping Community
  2. Martha Smith Roberts, Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand
  3. pp. 36-59
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  1. Escaping the Perils of Sensationalist Television Reduction: A&E Networks' Escaping Polygamy as a Reality TV Atrocity Tale
  2. Michelle Mueller
  3. pp. 60-83
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  1. The Practices and Networks of Female Yiguan Dao Members in Buddhist Thailand
  2. Lin Yu-Sheng
  3. pp. 84-107
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Media Review

  1. Waco after Twenty-five Years: Media Reconstructions of the Federal Siege of the Branch Davidians
  2. Stuart A. Wright
  3. pp. 108-120
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Reviews

  1. A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements by W. Michael Ashcraft (review)
  2. Jon R. Stone
  3. pp. 121-123
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  1. Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal by Tisa Wenger (review)
  2. James T. Richardson
  3. pp. 123-124
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  1. Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts by Scott A. Mitchell (review)
  2. Scott Lowe
  3. pp. 124-125
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  1. Cyber Zen: Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community, and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life by Gregory Price Grieve (review)
  2. Calvin Mercer
  3. pp. 125-127
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  1. Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks by Justin Thomas McDaniel (review)
  2. Manuel Lopez
  3. pp. 127-129
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  1. Alan Watts—In the Academy: Essays and Lectures ed. by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice (review)
  2. Scott Lowe
  3. pp. 129-130
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  1. Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China by Megan Bryson (review)
  2. Naran Bilik
  3. pp. 130-132
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  1. Spirits and Trance in Brazil. An Anthropology of Religious Experience by Bettina E. Schmidt (review)
  2. Patricia Lerch
  3. pp. 132-133
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  1. Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion by Michael York (review)
  2. Ethan Doyle White
  3. pp. 133-135
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  1. Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes by James V. Spickard (review)
  2. Benjamin D. Crace
  3. pp. 135-137
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  1. Cults and Extreme Belief (review)
  2. Joseph P. Laycock
  3. pp. 137-139
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  1. Holy Hell dir. by Will Allen (review)
  2. Joseph P. Laycock
  3. pp. 139-140
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  1. UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age by David G. Robertson (review)
  2. Kelly E. Hayes
  3. pp. 141-143
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  1. Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History by Lee Irwin (review)
  2. Allison P. Coudert
  3. pp. 143-145
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  1. William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity by Krister Dylan Knapp (review)
  2. Benjamin D. Crace
  3. pp. 145-147
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  1. Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art by Arthur Versluis (review)
  2. Darren Iammarino
  3. pp. 147-148
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  1. Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From Popular Culture to Religion ed. by Carole M. Cusack and Pavol Kosnáč (review)
  2. Tarryl Janik
  3. pp. 148-150
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  1. Scientology in Popular Culture: Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy ed. by Stephen A. Kent and Susan Raine (review)
  2. Donald A. Westbrook
  3. pp. 150-153
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  1. Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser (review)
  2. W. Michael Ashcraft
  3. pp. 153-154
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  1. Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier in Family Law by Mark Goldfeder (review)
  2. Christine Talbot
  3. pp. 154-156
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  1. Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith (review)
  2. Martha L. Finch
  3. pp. 156-157
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  1. The Specter of the Indian: Race, Gender, and Ghosts in American Seances, 1848–1890 by Kathryn Troy (review)
  2. Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
  3. pp. 157-159
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  1. The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic ed. by Owen Davies (review)
  2. Jodie Ann Vann
  3. pp. 159-161
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  1. The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875–1947 ed. by Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford (review)
  2. Ethan Doyle White
  3. pp. 161-162
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  1. Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Seances, 1850–1930 by Claudie Massicotte (review)
  2. Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
  3. pp. 162-165
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  1. A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America by Rachel McBride Lindsey (review)
  2. Aaron Duggan
  3. pp. 165-166
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  1. The Spiritual Journals of Warren Felt Evans: From Methodism to Mind Cure ed. by Catherine L. Albanese (review)
  2. Dawn Hutchinson
  3. pp. 166-168
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  1. A Pope of Their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church by Magnus Lundberg (review)
  2. Massimo Introvigne
  3. pp. 168-171
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  1. Cowboy Christians by Marie W. Dallam (review)
  2. Eugene V. Gallagher
  3. pp. 171-172
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Article Contributors

  1. Article Contributors
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