In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Brainwashing, Race, and New Religious Movements in the United States

Dusty Hoesly
pp. 5-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989136
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“Shadow Takes Form”: Brainwashing and Government Religion in the Cold War

Shelby King
pp. 21-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989137
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Brainwashing, Race, and the Unification Church: Orientalism and Yellow Peril Rhetoric from the Cold War to the Cult Wars

Dusty Hoesly
pp. 43-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989138
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Dangerous Minds: Brainwashing Accusations, Affect, and Criminality

Joshua D. Urich
pp. 69-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989139
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Idyllic, Exotic, Dangerous: Race, Gender, and the Frontier in News Coverage of Communal Religions

Paul A. Anthony
pp. 100-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989140
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Reviews

The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson (review)

Jason O. Jeffries
pp. 126-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989141
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Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake by Judith Weisenfeld (review)

Alexander Rocklin
pp. 128-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989142
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The Bahá’í Faith and the Black Intelligentsia: Race, Religion, and Nation by Christopher Buck (review)

Jesse Washington
pp. 129-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989143
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Geographies of Religious Spaces and Sacred Landscapes ed. by Darius Liutikas (review)

Matt Tomlinson
pp. 131-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989144
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’Pataphysics Unrolled ed. by Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor (review)

Carole M. Cusack
pp. 133-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989145
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Mediated Mormons: Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age by Rosemary Avance (review)

Eric Michael Mazur
pp. 135-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989146
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Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran: Mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context by Sara Afshari (review)

Sajjad Adeliyan Tous
pp. 136-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989147
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Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds by Alex K. Gearin (review)

Tarryl Janik
pp. 139-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989148
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Shamanism: The Timeless Religion by Manvir Singh (review)

Ethan Doyle White
pp. 141-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989149
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Hare Krishna in the Twenty-First Century by Angela R. Burt (review)

Jon R. Stone
pp. 143-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989150
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Korean New Religions by Don Baker (review)

Massimo Introvigne
pp. 144-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989151
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Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex, Scandal, and California’s First Cult Scare by Joshua Paddison (review)

Brian C. Wilson
pp. 146-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989152
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They Know We’re Coming! The True Story of the ATF Undercover Operation at Koresh’s Waco Compound by Robert X. Rodriguez (review)

Jonathan Cahana Blum
pp. 148-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989153
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible by Carlos Eire (review)

Ian S. Wilson
pp. 150-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989154
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Wyrd Ecology: Heathen Ritual and Gifting Relations by Barbara Jane Davy (review)

Avalon Jade Theisen
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989155
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Religious Minorites in Pluralistic Societies: Critical Perspectives on the Accommodation of Religious Diversities ed. by Roberta Medda-Windischer, Kerstin Wonisch and Alexandra Cosima Budabin (review)

James T. Richardson
pp. 154-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989156
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Islam and Pseudoscience by Stefano Bigliardi (review)

Mark Sedgwick
pp. 155-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989157
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Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil by Michael Amoruso (review)

Patricia Barker Lerch
pp. 157-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989158
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Let the Dead Speak: Spiritualism in Australia by Andrew Singleton and Matt Tomlinson (review)

Ethan Doyle White
pp. 158-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2026.a989159
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