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  1. Twenty-Second Annual Thomas Robbins Awards: For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements
  2. p. 5
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949117
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  1. The Helen Crovetto Award: For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements with Ties to South Asia
  2. p. 6
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949116
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  1. Faith or Family? How Shincheonji Church of Jesus Members Navigate the Tragic Dilemma Between Religious Commitment and Filial Familism
  2. Mary Briggs
  3. pp. 7-29
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949118
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  1. A Theology Written in Pencil: Sacred Scholarship and the Vero Essene Yahad
  2. Anne S. Kreps
  3. pp. 30-54
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949119
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  1. When the Synagogue Is Turned into a Delivery Room: Embracing Gender and Sexual Bodily Experiences through a Kabbalistic Renewal Custom
  2. Elazar Ben-Lulu
  3. pp. 55-78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949120
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  1. Presencing, Immersion, and Community: How Conspiracy Theory Belief Is Kindled Online
  2. T. Kenny Fountain, Chandler Jennings
  3. pp. 79-103
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949121
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Review Essay

  1. Revisiting Waco on the Thirtieth Anniversary: New Books on the Branch Davidian Tragedy
  2. Stuart A. Wright
  3. pp. 104-114
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949122
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Reviews

  1. The Making of American Buddhism by Scott A. Mitchell (review)
  2. Drew Baker
  3. pp. 115-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949123
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  1. Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat—An American History by Christina Ward (review)
  2. Marie W. Dallam
  3. pp. 117-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949124
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  1. The Essential Swedenborg: Basic Religious Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg by Sig Synnestvedt (review)
  2. Jeremy Rapport
  3. pp. 118-120
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949125
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  1. The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible by Michael Austin (review)
  2. Stephen Cameron
  3. pp. 120-121
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949126
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  1. Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies by Richard Saville-Smith (review)
  2. Benjamin D. Crace
  3. pp. 121-124
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949127
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  1. Selling the Sacred: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon ed. by Mara Einstein and Sarah McFarland Taylor (review)
  2. Aaron Duggan
  3. pp. 124-126
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949128
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  1. Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement by Simon Coleman (review)
  2. Tarryl Janik
  3. pp. 126-128
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949129
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  1. Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide by Susan J. Palmer, Dilmurat Mahmut, and Abdulmuqtedir Udun (review)
  2. Diana Gina Tumminia
  3. pp. 128-129
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949130
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  1. ‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements ed. by Aled Thomas and Edward Graham-Hyde (review)
  2. John Mauger
  3. pp. 129-131
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949131
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  1. Spirited Diasporas: Personal Narratives and Global Futures of Afro-Atlantic Religions ed. by Martin Tsang (review)
  2. Richard C. Salter
  3. pp. 131-133
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949132
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  1. The Black Coptic Church: Race and Imagination in a New Religion by Leonard Cornell McKinnis II (review)
  2. Darrius D. Hills
  3. pp. 133-135
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949133
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  1. The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief by Joseph P. Laycock and Eric Harrelson (review)
  2. Bernard Doherty
  3. pp. 135-137
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949134
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  1. A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans by Jeffrey B. Russell and Brooks Alexander (review)
  2. Caroline Tully
  3. pp. 137-139
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949135
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  1. Satanism by Joseph P. Laycock, and: The New Witches of the West: Tradition, Liberation, and Power by Ethan Doyle White (review)
  2. Benjamin D. Crace
  3. pp. 139-141
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949136
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  1. El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, Superstitions, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba by Lydia Cabrera (review)
  2. Richard C. Salter
  3. pp. 141-143
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949137
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  1. The Study of Religion in Sweden: Past, Present and Future ed. by Henrik Bogdan and Göran Larsson (review)
  2. Olav Hammer
  3. pp. 146-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949139
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  1. Honor Roll of Reviewers in 2024
  2. p. 148
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2025.a949140
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