The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
Volume II
Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tollefsen
Author Information
James R. Lewis is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø (Norway). He currently co-edits three book series and is the general editor for the Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review. Recent publications include: (with Henrik Bogdan) Sexuality and New Religious Movements (2014), (with Carole Cusack) Sacred Suicide (2014), (with Bengt-Ove Andressen) Textbook Gods (2014), Sects & Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members (2014), (with Siv Ellen Kraft and Trude Fonneland) Nordic Neoshamanisms (2015), and (with Inga B. Tøllefsen) The Brill Handbook of Nordic New Religions (2015).
Inga B. Tøllefsen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tromsø (Norway). Her main research interest is NRMs and gender, and her thesis work focuses on gender in the the Amma movement, as well as other Hindu-inspired global meditation movements. She has published several articles on the Art of Living Foundation, and she is a co-editor of several anthologies, such as Nordic New Religions (with James R. Lewis), and Female Leaders in New Religious Movements (with Christian Giudice).
Contributors:
Kaarina Aitamurto is a post-doctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute and is a member of The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies - Choices of Russian Modernisation, funded by the Academy of Finland.
Henrik Bogdan is Associate Professor in History of Religions at the University of Gothenburg.
David G. Bromley is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
George D. Chryssides is currently Visiting Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies at York St John University.
Douglas E. Cowan is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies at Renison University College, in Waterloo, Canada, where he also serves as Academic Dean.
Sean E. Currie is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
Carole M. Cusack is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney.
Ellen Dobrowolski is currently a graduate student at UiT-Norway's Arctic University in Tromsø, Norway.
Asbjorn Dyrendal is Professor in History of Religion at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Trude Fonneland is currently professor in the Department of Culture studies at Tromsø Museum, the University of Tromso, the Artic University of Norway.
Liselotte Frisk has been Professor of Religious Studies at Högskolan Dalarna since 2006.
Eugene V. Gallagher is the Rosemary Park Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College.
Ingvild Saelid Gilhus is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Megan Goodwin is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative and Innovative Pedagogy in the Humanities and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Bates College.
Olav Hammer is Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark.
Cimminnee Holt is a lecturer and doctoral candidate in religious studies at Concordia University, Montreal.
Siv Ellen Kraft is professor of the History of Religions, University of Tromsø, Norway.
Margrethe Loov is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen.
Jean-Francois Mayer is founder of the Religioscope Institute and is the editor of the website www.religion.info.
Jessica Moberg is a postdoctoral researcher at Gothenburg University.
Rebecca Moore is Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University.
Sanja Nilsson is a PhD student of religious studies at Dalarna University.
Christopher Partridge is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK.
Jesper Aagaard Petersen is Associate Professor at the Programme for Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Erin Prophet is a doctoral student in the Department of Religion at Rice University.
Jeremy Rapport is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio, USA.
James T. Richardson is Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directs the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies as well as the Judicial Studies degree programs for trial judges.
Mikael Rothstein is Associate Professor of the History of Religions, University of Southern Denmark. He is also tenured Visiting Professor at the Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.
Nicole S. Ruskell is currently a graduate student at the University of Sheffield and Editorial Director of Academic Publishing.
John A. Saliba is Emeritus Professor from the University of Detroit Mercy.
Shannon Trosper Schorey is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Anson Shupe is retired Professor of Sociology and Anthropology from Indiana University and Purdue University in Fort Wayne.
Scott Simpson is a senior lecturer at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
Diana Tumminia retired from teaching college in 2011. She continues her writing, social activism, gardening, and art projects.
Erik A. W. Ostling is a study counselor and administrator for the history of religions at the department for ethnology, history of religions and gender studies at Stockholm University.
