INDEX TO SYZYGY: Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture
Volume 1: Issue 1 (Winter 1992)
Articles
European Receptivity to the New Religions--J. Gordon Melton
The Utopian Vision of Christiania--Elizabeth Mackenzie
Drop City: Historical Notes on the Pioneer Hippie Commune--Timothy Miller
Social Factors in the Failure of New Religious Movements: A Case Study Using Stark's Success Model--Phillip Lucas
From British-Israelism to Christian Identity: The Evolution of White Supremacist Religious Doctrine--Michael Barkun
UFO Contactee Phenomena from a Sociological Perspective: A Review--John A. Saliba
Book Reviews
Georg Feuerstein, Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and
Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal
Gurus
Richard Grossinger, Waiting for the Martial Express: Cosmic
Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams--Reviewed by Robert S.
Ellwood
Catherine L. Albanese, Nature Religion in America from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age--Reviewed by Maureen Korp
Hutterian Brethren, Brothers Unite: An Account of the Uniting of Eberhard Arnold and the Rhon Bruderhof with the Hutterian Church--Reviewed by Yaacov Oved
Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin--Reviewed by Charles P. LeWarne
Thomas P. Rausch, Radical Christian Communities--Reviewed by Christiana M. Lemieux
Robert D. Hicks, In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
James A. Aho, The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
Collen Ryan, Beyers Naude: Pilgrimage of Faith--Reviewed by James T. Mathieu
Kevin Brownlow, Behind the Mask of Innocence--Reviewed by Peggy Ann Brown
J. Gordon Melton, et al., New Age Encyclopedia
J. Gordon
Melton, et al., New Age Almanac--Reviewed by Christel
Manning
Volume 1: Issue 2-3 (Spring 1992)
Articles
Arcana Arcanorum: Cagliostro's Legacy in Contemporary Magical Movements--Massimo Introvigne
The World of Meaning of Urban Religious Communalists--William L. Smith
The New Age Movement in Great Britain--Michael York
Space Magic, Techno-animism and the Cult of the Goddess in a Southern California UFO Contactee Group: A Case Study of Millenarianism--R. George Kirkpatrick and Diana Tumminia
"Poisonous Tenets": Religious Insanity in Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Medical Theory--James R. Lewis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and New Religious Movements--Michael W. Homer
Woman as "Playmate" in the Raelian Movement: Power and Pantagamy in a New Religion--Susan J. Palmer
The New Age--James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton
Old Identities and New Religions in Israel--Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Book Reviews
Mary Farrell Bednarowski, New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America-- Reviewed by Catherine Wessinger
Gareth Knight, Magic and the Western Mind
Alan Richardson, 20th
Century Magic and the Old Religion: Dion Fortune, Christine Hartley, Charles
Seymour--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
Ted A. Campbell, The Religion of the Heart: A Study of European Religious Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries--Reviewed by Donald F. Durnbaugh
Belden C. Lane, Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality--Reviewed by Maureen Korp
Carlton Sherwood, Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon--Reviewed by Michael L. Mickler
Daniel H. Caldwell, ed., The Occult World of Madame Blavatsky--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
Paul M. Edwards, Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints--Reviewed by Steven L. Shields
Elinor W. Gadon, The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time--Reviewed by Maureen Korp
Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity
Stanley Hauerwas and
William H. Willimon, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony--
Reviewed by Phillip Cook
Massimo Introvigne, Le Nuove Religioni--Reviewed by Isotta Poggi
Richard Kelly Hoskins, Vigilantes of Christendom--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
Donald Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture--Reviewed by William L. Smith
Lyell D. Henry, Jr., Zig-Zag-and-Swirl: Alfred W. Lawsons's Quest for Greatness-- Reviewed by Timothy Miller
Lawrence Foster, Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons--Reviewed by Roger D. Launius
Michael Quinn, ed., The New Mormon History--Reviewed by Matthew R. Fellows
Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet--Reviewed by Roger D. Launius
T.M. Luhrman, Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England-- Reviewed by J.J. Gauthier
Aidan Kelly, Crafting the Art of Magic. Book I: A History of Modern Witchcraft-- Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
Aidan Kelly, Crafting the Art of Magic. Book I: A History of Modern Witchcraft-- Reviewed by Michael A. Koszegi
Volume 1: Issue 4 (Fall 1992)
Articles
Arthur Conan Doyle's Views on Mormonism: Sources and Subsequent Revelations--Michael W. Homer
My Sister, My Wife: An Examination of Sororal Polygyny in a Contemporary Mormon Fundamentalist Sect--Janet Bennion Cannon
Spiritualism and UFO Religion in New Zealand: The International Transmission of Modern Spiritual Movements--Robert S. Ellwood
Rudolf Steiner, Esoteric Christianity, and the New Age Movement--Roger E. Olson
Different Forms of Spirit Mediation in Mahikari and Shinnyo-en: Shamanism East and West-- Catherine Cornille
Book Reviews
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Gaia and God: An Eco-Feminist Theology of Earth Healing-- Reviewed by J.J. Gauthier
Wes "Scoop" Nishker, Crazy Wisdom--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
Yvonne Yazbeck, The Muslims of America--Reviewed by George Adams
Jill Watts, God, Harlem, U.S.A.
Lenwood G. Davis, Daddy Grace:
An Annotated Bibliography--Reviewed by Ernest J. Green
Christopher Vecsey, Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom--Reviewed by John D. Loftin
Paul S. Gauthier, Quest for Utopia: The Icarians of Adams County--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
James Craig Holte, The Conversion Experience in America: A Sourcebook on American Conversion Autobiography--Reviewed by Joan C. Ludeke
Stephen D. Glazier, Marchin' the Pilgrims Home: A Study of the Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad--Reviewed by Michael V. Angrosino
Susanne Carter, War and Peace through Women's Eyes: A Selective Biography of Twentieth- Century Women's Fiction--Reviewed by Peggy Ann Brown
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel--Reviewed by S. Daniel Breslauer
Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
News
New Religions Update--James A. Beverley
Special Report on the Research Unit for the Study of New Religious Movements and Independent Churches (South Africa)--G.C. Oosthuizen
Volume 2: Issue 1-2 (Winter-Spring 1993)
Articles
New Age and New Spiritual Movements: The Role of Spiritual Intellectuals--Shimazono Susumu
Christianity as a New Religion: Charisma, Minor Founders, and Indigenous Movements-- Mark R. Mullins
The Mount Carmel Davidians: Adventist Reformers, 1935-1959--Bill Pitts
Annie Besant's Millenial Movement: Its History, Impact, and Implications Concerning Authority (And Epilogue on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians)--Catherine Wessinger
American New Religious Movements in Eastern Europe in the 1990s--Isotta Poggi
La Therapie Spirituelle Antoiniste--Regis Dericquebourg
Palo: An Afro-Cuban Cult Often Confused with Santeria--Raul Canizares
New Religious Movements and Social Change: The Case of Feminist Spirituality--Cynthia Eller
All That Glitters...Crazy Wisdom and Entrepeneurialism in the Spiritual Schools of E.J. Gold--Susan J. Palmer
Words of the Christ Create a New World Religion--Reender Kranenborg
Book Reviews
Thomas A. Tweed. The American Encounter with Buddhism 1833-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent--Reviewed by Catherine Wessinger
Robert E. Buswell, Jr. The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in
Contemporary Korea.
Heinrich Dumoulin. Zen Buddhism in the 20th
Century.
Soiku Shigematsu, Trans. A Zen Forest: Sayings of the
Masters
--Reviewed by Stanley Lombardo
William Patrick Patterson. Eating the "I": An Account of the Fourth Way--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
David E. Van Zandt. Living in the Children of God--Reviewed by James A. Beckford
Stephen J. Stein. The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
Linda A. Mercadante. Gender, Doctrine, and God: The Shakers and Contemporary Theology--Reviewed by Diane Sasson
Anne Carson. Godesses and Wise Women: The Literature of Feminist Spirituality 1980-1992, An Annotated Bibliography--Reviewed by Cynthia Eller
“Cults and the Law” (Thematic Issue of Behavioral Sciences and the Law Vol. 10 (No. 1, Winter), 1992--Reviewed by Anson Shupe
The Reverand Sunanda Putuwar. The Buddhist Sangha: Paradigm of the Ideal Human Society--Reviewed by Christopher Key Chapple
Martha F. Lee. The Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian Movement--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
Chas S. Clifton, ed. The Modern Craft Movement: Witchcraft Today--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
Duncan S. Ferguson, ed. New Age Spirituality--Reviewed by Phillip C. Lucas
Heinrich Zimmer. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization--Reviewed by Catherine Wessinger
James P. Henry. Instincts, Archetypes and Symbols: An Approach to the Psychology of Religious Experience--Reviewed by T.L. Brink
Raul J. Canizares. Walking with the Night, the Afro-Cuban World of Santeria--Reviewed by Moorman Oliver Jr.
Lee Siegel. Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
Phillip L. Barlow. Mormons and the Bible--Reviewed by Eric C. Olson
John-Roger and Peter McWilliams. Life 101.
John-Roger and Peter
McWilliams. Do It: Let's Get Off Our Buts--Reviewed by T.L. Brink
Radha Rajagopal Sloss. Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti--Reviewed by Catherine Wessinger
News
New Religions Update--James A. Beverley
Volume 2: Issue 3-4 (Summer-Fall 1993)
Articles
The Evangelical Thrust into Eastern Europe in the 1990s--J. Gordon Melton
What is a Successful Religious Movement? Analysis of Observer and Participant Perspectives--Nurit Zaidman-Dvir
Mergers, "Marriages," Coalitions, and Denominationalization: The Growth of Calvary Chapel--James T. Richardson
State Regulation of Marginal Religious Movements--Thomas Robbins and David Bromley
The Rastafarian Movement and Its Appearance in South Africa--Gerhardus C. Oosthuizen
The Anti-Cult Movement in America: An History of Culture Perspective--Jeffrey Kaplan
The British Occult Subculture: Beyond Good and Evil?--Susan Greenwood
Religious Dimensions of the UFO Abductee Experience--John Whitmore
Star-Borne Opens the Doorway--Christel Manning
The Hutterite High School Experience: Boundary Maintenance on the Praries--Rod Janzen
Book Reviews
John A. Hostetler. Amish Society.
Donald B.
Kraybill, ed. The Amish and the State.
Lucian Niemeyer. Old Order
Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life.
Donovan E. Smucker. The Sociology
of Mennonites, Hutterites, and Amish: A Bibliography with Annotations,
Volume II, 1977-1990--Reviewed by James E. Landing
Richard E. Wentz, ed. Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Spirituality--Reviewed by Donald F. Durnbaugh
Daphne Odjig. A Paintbrush in My Hand--Reviewed by Maureen Korp
Marcia Starck. The Complete Handbook of Natural Healing--Reviewed by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Richard Godbeer. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England--Reviewed by John K. Simmons
Lynda Sexson. Ordinarily Sacred--Reviewed by Maureen Korp
Martha Sonntag Bradley. Kidnapped from That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
Mel Scult. Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Bibliography of Mordecai M. Kaplan--Reviewed by S. Daniel Breslauer
George M. Smiga. Pain and Polemic: Anti-Judaism in the Gospels--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Active New
Religions, Sects, and Cults.
George A. Mather and Larry A. Nichols.
Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult.
J. Gordon
Melton. The Encyclopedia of American Religions--Reviewed by Timothy
Miller
Hal French. A Study of Religious Fanaticism and Responses to It--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
M.D. Faber. Modern Witchcraft and Psychoanalysis--Reviewed by Daniel C. Noel
Yaacov Oved. Two Hundred Years of American Communes. Reviewed by William L. Smith
Edred Thorsson. A Book of Troth.
KveldulfR Gundarsson. Teutonic
Religion.
Lewis Stead and the Raven Kindred. Ravenbook: The Raven
Kindred Ritual Book--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
News
New Religions Update--James A. Beverley
Volume 3: Issues 1-4 (Winter-Fall 1994)
Articles
Villes occultes: du Paris de Papus au Lyon de Jean Bricaud Qu'est-ce que l'occultism?--Robert Amadou
The "Cult" Stereotype as an Ideological Resource in Social Conflicts: A Case Study of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness--James R. Lewis
Edgar Cayce and Reincarnation: Past Life Readings as Religious Symbology--J. Gordon Melton
The Impact of Communal Living on Children in the 1980s--William L. Smith
Shaker Apostates and Seceders: Unorthodox Perspectives on the Shaker Experience and the Development of New Religious Movements--Lawrence Foster
Embracing Jesus and the Goddess: Toward a Reconceptualization of Conversion to Syncretistic Religion--Christel J. Manning
Waiting for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and Peep's UFO Cult--Robert W. Balch
Pope Pius IX and Brigham Young: A Comparison of the Development of the Roman Catholic and Mormon Churches in the Nineteenth Century--Michael W. Homer
Elite Religious Movements and the Politics of Legitimation--Evelyn Dorothy Oliver and James R. Lewis
The Beast and the Prophet: Aleister Crowley's Fascination with Joseph Smith--Massimo Introvigne
The "Cult" Concept: A Politics of Representation Analysis--Jane Dillon and James Richardson
The Contemporary Neo-Pagan Revival--Judy Harrow
Social Scientific Research on Astrology: A Review--Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
A Preliminary Assessment of Women's Conversion Narratives at New Vrindaban--John M. Bozeman
Environmental Impacts, Stewardship, and Development: The Building of a Religious Community in Montana--William L. Smith
New Age: Religion of the Future--Reender Kranenborg
Forging Magical Selves: Gendered Bodies and Ritual Fires at Neo-Pagan Festivals--Sarah M. Pike
Power and Empowerment: New Age Managers and the Dialectics of Modernity/Postmodernity--Richard Roberts
Presbyterians and Destructive Cultists: The Universalist Critique of the 1820s Revivals--Tyler O. Hendricks
Religious Liberty and Deprogramming: Three Canadian Cases--M. Darrol Bryant
"The Convent's Doom": Anti-Catholic Narratives and the Destruction of the Charlestown Nunnery--James R. Lewis
Book Reviews
Review Essay. Critical Perspectives on a Paraculture--Reviewed by Daniel C. Noel
Marjorie Leach. Guide to the Gods--Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
David G. Bromley and Jeffrey K. Hadden. The Handbook on Cults and Sects in America--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
Antoine Faivre, Jacob Needleman, and Karen Voss. Modern Esoteric Spirituality--Reviewed by Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Richard Kyle. The Religious Fringe: A History of Alternative Religion in America--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
Wendy E. Chmielewski, Louis J. Kern, and Marlyn Klee-Hartzell. Women in
Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States.
Jean M.
Humez. Mother's First Born Daughter: Early Shaker Writings on Women and
Religion.
Catherine Wessinger. Women's Leadership in Marginal
Religions: Explorations Outside the Mainstream--Reviewed by Ellen
Eisenberg
Brian J. L. Berry. America's Utopian Experiments: Communal Havens from Long-Wave Crises--Reviewed by Jonathan G. Andelson
Sally L. Kitch. This Strange Society of Women: Reading the Letters and Lives of the Woman's Commonwealth--Reviewed by Deborah E. Altus
John-Roger. Forgiveness: The Key to the Kingdom--Reviewed by Glenn Barnett and Laren Bright
Response and Rejoinder--Peter McWilliams/T. L. Brink
Deborah E. Burns. Shaker Cities of Peace, Love, and Union: A History of the Hancock Bishopric--Reviewed by R. L. Rainard
Kat Kinkade. Is it Utopia Yet? An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year--Reviewed by Timothy Miller
Ted Peters. The Cosmic Self--Reviewed by George Adams
Kenneth Ring. The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large--Reviewed by Daniel C. Noel
Susan J. Palmer and Arvind Sharma, eds. The Rajneesh Papers: Studies in a New Religious Movement--Reviewed by Marion S. Goldman
Thomas Burton. Serpent-Handling Believers--Reviewed by Peter Hocken
Arthur Versluis. American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions--Reviewed by Carl T. Jackson
Beryl Pogson. Maurice Nicoll: A Portrait--Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood
Randy-Michael Testa. After the Fire: The Destruction of the Lancaster County Amish--Reviewed by R. L. Rainard
Lester E. Bush, Jr. Health and Medicine Among the Latter-day Saints: Science, Sense, and Scripture--Reviewed by Danny L. Jorgensen
Ritchie, David. UFO: The Definitive Guide to Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Phenomena--Reviewed by James R. Lewis
Volume 6: Issue 1 (Winter-Spring 1997)
Articles
The Church of the Movement of Spiritual Awareness: A Demographic Profile—Michela Zonta
The Infrigement of Religious Freedom in Japan: Background and Future Prospects—Tokihisa Sumimoto
Graduating to the Next Level: The Heaven’s Gate Tragedy in the Context of New Age Ideology—Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Kashi: A Meeting of East and West—J. Gordon Melton
A Rumor of Devils: The Satanic
Ritual Abuse Scare in the Mormon Church—Massimo Introvigne
Special Reports,
Research Notes, Essays
Ramtha in the Petri Dish: The
Mixing of Science and Faith in Yelm—Christopher Vincint
Kauki
Book Reviews
Ronald L. Numbers.
Prophetess of Health:
Ellen G. White and the Origins of the Seventh Day Adventist Health
Reform. Reviewed by Jerry
Bergman
Francis Trix. Spiritual Discourse: Learning with an Islamic Master—Reviewed by Jeffrey Kaplan
C. Eric Lincoln. The Black Muslims in America—Reviewed by Stephen D. Glazier
William Beers.
Women and Sacrifice: Male
Narcissism and the Psychology of Religion—Reviewed by George
Adams
James R. Lewis.
Seeking the Light:
Uncovering the Truth about the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and
its Founder John-Roger—Reviewed by Joseph Waligore
Volume 6: Issue 2 (Summer-Fall 1997)
Articles
Hermeneutics for a Non-Doctrinal Religious Movement: Why and How—Dell deChant
Jesus’ Stay in India—Reender Kranenborg
The Mormon Transition of 1890 and The Family’s Transition of the 1990s: Parallels and Unparallels—Massimo Introvigne
The Odyssey of Sister Thedra—Jerome Clark
Theosophy and the Theosophical Societies: An Overview—James Santucci
The Impact of Extraterrestrial Life on Religion—Victoria Alexander
Special Reports,
Research Notes, Essays
Clearing the Planet: Utopian Idealism and the Church of Scientology—James R. Lewis
Book Reviews
William G. Doty. Myths of Masculinity. Reviewed by Robert N. Minor
John Hick. Death and Eternal Life. Reviewed by George Adams
Michael D. Langone, ed. Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse. Reviewed by Ralph Rath
Ronald M. Enroth. Churches that Abuse. Reviewed by George Adams
Stevan L. Davies. Jesus the Healer: Possession, Trance and the Origins of Christianity. Morton Smith: Jesus the Magician. Reviewed by Judy Harrow
