Violence and New Religious Movements
Edited by James R. Lewis
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Edited by James R. Lewis, Associate Professor of History and Religion, University of Tromso, Norway
James R. Lewis is an extensively published scholar of new religious movements. He currently teaches in the History and Religious Studies Department of the University of Tromsø in Norway. His reference books have won New York Public Library, American Library Association, and Choice book awards. He has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and Meet the Press.
Contributors:
Kaarina Altamurto, postgraduate student, Aleksanteri Institute at Helsinki University
Dick Anthony, research and forensic psychologist
Steven Barrie-Anthony, Ph.D. student, University of California Santa Barbara
Henrik Bogdan, Professor of Religion, Göteborg University, Sweden
David G. Bromley, Professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Helen Crovetto, Independent Scholar of New Religious Movements within Hindu Tantrism
Edelman, Senior Trial Consultant, Jury Research Institute, Northern California
Constance Elsberg, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Northern Virginia Community College
Marion S. Goldman, Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, University of Oregon
Martha F. Lee, Associate Professor of Political Science and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Religion and Conflict, University of Windsor, Canada
James R. Lewis, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tromso, Norway
Jean-François Mayer, Director of Religioscope Institute,Fribourg, Switzerland
Rebecca Moore, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies, San Diego State University
Jonathan Peste, lecturer, Göteborg University
Jesper Aagaard Petersen, postgraduate student, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Martin Repp, Associate Director of the NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions, Kyoto
James T. Richardson, J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies, University of Nevada, Reno
Thomas Robbins, sociologist of religion
E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Professor of Sociology and Religion, Middlebury College
Anson Shupe, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University and Purdue University
Stuart A. Wright, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies & Research and Professor of Sociology, Lamar University.
Benjamin Zeller, Assistant Professor of Religion, Brevard College
