Table of contents for the most recent issue of the International Journal for the Study of New Religions 3:2 (November 2012).
Articles:
Cracks in the Network Conversion Paradigm
James R. Lewis
Quirky Neighbors or the Cult Next-Door? An Analysis of
Public Perceptions of the Exclusive Brethren in Australia
Bernard Doherty
The Significance and Purpose of the “Anti-Cult Movement†in
Facilitating Disaffiliation From a New Religious Movement:
Resources for Self-construction or a Justificatory Account
Dominiek Coates
Doubtful Food, Doubtful Faith: A Comparative Study of the
Influence of Religious Maximalism on New Ideas of Food
Taboo in Some Contemporary Jewish and Muslim
Communities
Simon Theobald
Gender and Spiritual Therapy in Japan
Ioannis Gaitanidis
Book reviews:
Lives Lived and Lost,by Kaja Finkler and Golda Finkler
Reviewed by Yaakov Ariel
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou
and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo,by Margarite Fernandez
and Lizabeth Parvisini-Gebert
Reviewed by Marzia Coltri
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society. Ethnographies of
Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania,
edited by Milda Ališauskienė and Ingo W. Schroder
Reviewed by Massimo Introvigne
Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith,by Carole M.
Cusack
Reviewed by Kevin Whitesides