New Religious Movements

Short bibliography

• Barker, Eileen, ed. New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society. NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982.
• Beckford, James A., ed.  New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1986.
• Berger, Helen A. A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
• Bromley, David G., "New Religious Movements," in William H. Swatos, Jr., ed., Encyclopedia of Religion
  and Society. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1998.
  
• Bromley, David G., and J. Gordon Melton, eds. Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Bryant, Edwin, and Maria Ekstran, eds. The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant. NY: Columbia University Press, 2004.
• Cheng, Tun-jen and Deborah A. Brown. Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2006. (Includes a few NRMs.)
• Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988
• Choquette, Diane. New Religious Movements in the United States and Canada: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography; with an introductory essay by Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985.
• Chryssides, George D. Exploring New Religions. London: Cassell, 1999.
• Chryssides, George D. Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
• Chryssides, George D. and Margaret Z. Witkins, A Reader in New Religious Movements. London; New York: Continuum, 2006.
• Clarke, Peter B. & Jeffrey Somers. eds. Japanese New Religions in the West. Kent [Eng.]: Japan Library, 1994.
• Clarke, Peter B., ed. Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
• Clarke, Peter B. Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. London; New York: Routledge, 2006. 
• Clarke, Peter B. New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World.  London: Routledge, 2006.
• Daschke, Dereck and Michael Ashcraft, eds., New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader. NY: NYU Press, 2005.
• Davis, Derek H. and Barry Hankins, Eds. New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America, 2^nd ed.  Waco: Baylor University Press, 2003.
• Dawson, Lorne L. Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious Movements, 2^nd ed. NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Dawson, Lorne L., ed. Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998.
• Dwyer, Graham and Richard J. Cole, eds. The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
• Ellwood, Robert S., and Harry B. Partin. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America, 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1988
• Gallagher, Eugene V. The New Religious Movements Experience in America. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004.
• Gallagher, Eugene V. and W. Michael Ashcraft, eds. Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America. 5 vols. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006.
• Lewis, James R., ed. From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.
• Lewis, James R., ed. The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
• Lewis, James R. Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
• Lewis, James R. Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
• Lewis, James R. UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
• Lewis, James R., ed. Odd Gods: New Religions and the Cult Controversy. NY: Prometheus Books, 2001.
• Lewis, James R. Satanism Today: An Encyclopedia of Religion, Folklore, and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
• Lewis, James R. Legitimating New Religions.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
• Lewis, James R., ed. The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements. NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Lewis, James R. and Jesper Aagaard Petersen. Controversial New Religions. NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. [online text]
• Lewis, James R. Cults: A Reference Handbook, 2^nd ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. [online text]
• Lewis, James R. and J. Gordon Melton. Perspectives on the New Age.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Lucas, Phillip Charles and Thomas Robbins, eds. New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective. NY: Routledge, 2004.
• McDonald, Kevin. Global Movements: Action and Culture. Malden; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2006. (On anti-globalization, new Islamic movements, and Falun Gong - theoretical focus.)
• Melton, J. Gordon and Robert L. Moore. The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1982.
• Melton, J. Gordon. Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders. New York: Garland Pub., 1986.
• Melton, J. Gordon. The Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America. New York: Garland Pub., 1986.
• Miller, Timothy, ed. When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements. Albany: SUNY Press, 1991.
• Miller, Timothy, ed. America's Alternative Religions. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.
• Palmer, Susan J. Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
• Partridge, Christopher, ed.  New Religions: A Guide: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities. NY:Oxford, 2004.
• Pike, Sarah M. New Age and Neopagan Religions in America. NY: Columbia University Press, 2004.
• Saliba, John A. Understanding New Religious Movements, 2^nd ed. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2003.
• Siegler, Elijah. New Religious Movements. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2007.
• Shimazono, Susumu.  From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan (Melbourne, Vic.: Trans Pacific; Abingdon : Marston, 2004)
• Stark, Rodney Stark and Reid Neilson. The Rise of Mormonism. NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005.
• Tabor, James D. and Eugene V. Gallagher. Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995
• Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate. NY: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.
• Wright, Stuart A., ed. Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
• Zellner, William W. Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles, 7th ed. New York: Worth, 2001. [Not all the groups are religious.]

Websites:

• Religious Movements Homepage Project, University of Virginia. http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
• Center for Studies on New Religions, Torino, Italy. http://www.cesnur.org
• Nanninga, Rob. "Cults & New Religious Movements: A Bibliography." http://www.skepsis.nl/cultsbib.html
• Nanninga, Rob. "Online texts about cults and new religions."  http://www.skepsis.nl/onlinetexts.html

Edit date: 12/11/13