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Journal of Contemporary Religion VOLUME
14 Number 2 May 1999 Articles
The Tilted Playing Field: Accounting for Religious Tastes. A more
General model for the Sociology of Religion
Andrew Greeley 189 ’Pop-Star’ Priests and the Catholic Response to the ‘Explosion’ of Evangelical Protestantism in Brazil: The Beginning of the End of the ‘Walkout’?
Peter B. Clarke 203 Religions, Modulators in Pluri-Ethnic Cities: An Anthropological Analysis of the Relative Shift from Ethnic to Supra-Ethnic and Meta-Ethnic faith communities in Brussels
Johan Leman 217
Civic Religion in England: Traditions and Transformations
Sophie Gilliat-Ray 233
The Brahmin and the Fakir: Suburban Religiosity in the Cult of Shirdi Sai Baba
Smriti Srinivas 245
Magic and Science in the Modern Western Tradition of the I Ching Roderick Main 263
Gender, Profession, and Non-Conformal Religiosity
Margit Warburg, Peter Lüchau & Peter B. Andersen 277 Review Article
Emergentism and Some Post-Big Bang Perspectives
Michael York 291 Book Reviews 299 Book Notes 327
Journal of Contemporary Religion VOLUME
14 Number 1 January 1999 Articles
Religion and Society in Present-Day Albania
Antonia Young 5 New Religions and the Internet: Recruiting in a New Public Space
Lorne L. Dawson & Jena Hennebry 17 Atheism, Faith, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Rodney Stark 41
Chinese Participation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong
Caroline Plüss 63 Truth, Authority and Epistemological Individualism in New Age
Thought
Christopher H. Partridge 77 Reincarnation Belief in Britain: New Age Orientation or Mainstream
Option?
Helen Waterhouse 97 ‘Some Will See Miracles’: The Reception of Morris Cerullo World
Evangelism in Britain
Nancy A. Schaefer 111 Comments on Rodney Stark’s “The Rise and fall of Christian Science”
Richard Singelenberg 127 Review Article
History and Wisdom of The Book of Changes: New Scholarship and
Richard Rutt’s Translation
X. Yao & H. McMurtrie 133
Book Reviews 139 Book Notes 177
Journal of Contemporary Religion VOLUME
13 Number 3 October 1998 Articles
Creating Sacred Space: Outer Expressions of Inner Worlds in Modern
Wicca
Lynne Hume 309 G.I.Gurdjieff: Some References to Love
Sophia Wellbeloved 321 Ethnicity, Religious Belonging and Inter Faith Encounter: Some
Survey Findings from East London
Greg Smith 333 The Socialization of the Gifts of Tongues and Healing in Mexican
Pentecostalism
Carlos Garma Navarro 353 Chiluba’s Christian Nation: Christianity as a Factor in Zambian
Politics 1991–1996
Paul Gifford 363 A Survey of Representative Groups on SACRE
David W. rose 383 Conference Report 395 Book Reviews 397
Book Notes 439 List of Referees 445 Title-page, VOLUME
Contents and Author Index 1998 447
Journal of Contemporary Religion VOLUME
13 Number 2 May 1998 Articles
British Theravada Buddhism: Otherworldly Theories and the Theory
of Exchange
Sandra Bell 149 Japanese Death Rituals in Transit:From Household Ancestors to
Beloved Antecedents
Hikaru Suzuki 171 The Rise and Fall of Christian Science
Rodney Stark 189 Managing the Demonic:Some Aspects of the Neo-Pentecostal
Deliverance Ministry
Stephen Hunt 215 Contemporary British Quakerism: The Relevance of Structure and
Reference to the Supernatural for its Validity
Caroline Plüss 231 The Presentation of the Essenes within Western Esotericism
Reender Kranenborg 245 New Age Authenticity and Social Roles: A Response to Steve Bruce
Paul Heelas 257 Book Reviews 265 Book Notes 301
Journal of Contemporary Religion
VOLUME
13 Number 1 January 1998 Articles
An Examination of the New Age Movement: Who is Involved and
What Constitutes its Spirituality
Stuart Rose 5 Good Intentions and Bad Sociology: New Age Authenticity and Social
Roles
Steve Bruce 23 Evangelicals and Politics: a Comparison between Africa and Latin
America
Paul Freston 37 The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the
Parliament of Religions
Russell T. McCutcheon 51 The Dialectics of Globalised Spirituality: Some Further Observations
Richard H. Roberts 65 The Empowering Image of the Divine Mother: a South African Hindu
Woman Worshipping the Goddess
Alleyn Diesel 73 Matriliny and Mother Goddess Religion
Brian Morris 91 Book Reviews 103 Book Notes 135
Journal of Contemporary Religion VOLUME
12 Number 3 October 1997
Articles
The New Kadampa Tradition and the Continuity of Tibetan Buddhism
in Transition
David Kay 277 Rethinking Religious Decision-Making in Peasant Millenarianism:
The Case of Nueva Jerusalén
Miguel C. Leatham 295 The Growth of the Literature on Afro-American, Latin American and
African Pentecostalism
André Corten 311
When the Deities are Asleep: Processes of Change in an American
Hare Krishna Temple
Nurit Zaidman 335 The Family, UFOs and God: A Modern Extension of Christian
Mythology
Mikael Rothstein 353 Creating ‘Cult’ Typologies: Some Strategic Considerations
Lorne L. Dawson 363 Taming the Lion of Judah: Masculinity, the Body and Contemporary
Christian Liturgy
David Torevell 383 Review Article
New Age and the Late 20th Century
Michael York 401 Book Reviews 421 Book Notes 451 List of Referees 455 Title-page, VOLUME
Contents and Author Index 1997 457
Journal of Contemporary Religion
VOLUME
12 Number 2 May 1997 Articles
Why the Jehovah's Witnesses Grow so Rapidly: A Theoretical
Application
Rodney Stark & Laurence R. Iannaccone 133 The Secularisation Thesis: Talking at Cross Purposes
Sharon Hanson 159 The Northeast Kingdom Community Church of Island Pond,
Vermont: Raising Up a People for Yahshua's Return
John M. Bozeman & Susan J. Palmer 181 Lubavitch: A Contemporary Messianic Movement
Simon Dein 191
The Religious Basis of Resistance and Non-response:
A Methodological Note
Roger E. Homan & Pink Dandelion 205 Elements of Religious Belief and Social Values among the Laity
of the Church in Wales
Richard Startup & Christopher C. Harris 215
Review Article
Stephen J. Castro: Hypocrisy and Dissent within the Findhorn
Foundation: Towards a Sociology of a New Age Community
Michael York 229 Book Reviews 239 Book Notes 269
Journal of Contemporary Religion
VOLUME
12 Number 1 January 1997 Articles
Children's Religious Affiliation in Eastern Germany
Mary L. Gautier & Joachim Singelmann… 5 'Splashed with Goodness': The Many Meanings of Amritfor Young
British Sikhs
Eleanor Nesbitt 17 Falling Out of Love: The Ordination of Women and
Recent Anglo-
American Anglican Schisms Explored
Martyn Percy 35 The Conquest of Magic over Public Space: Discovering the Face of
Popular Magic in Contemporary Society
Paula Eleta 51 The Goddess and Power: Witchcraft and Religion in America
Allen Scarboro & Philip Andrew Luck 69 Research Paper
Religion, Personality and Happiness
Leslie J. Francis & David Lester 81 Review Article
Martin Gardner: Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery
Michael York 87
Book Reviews 99 Book Notes 121
Journal of Contemporary Religion VOLUME
11 Number 3 October 1996 Articles
Religion in Britain at the Close of the 20th Century: A Challenge to
the Silver Lining Perspective
Steve Bruce 261 'Plaining': The Social and Cognitive Practice of Symbolisation in
the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers)
Peter J. Collins 277 Journalistic Bias Toward New Religious Movements in Australia
James T. Richardson 289 Purity and Danger in the Solar Temple
Susan J. Palmer 303 Iconographic Representations of Sri Ramakrishna and
Swami
Vivekananda
Gwilym Beckerlegge 319 Spiritualists, Aliens and UFOs: Extraterrestrialsas Spirit Guides
Jennifer E. Porter 337
Conference Report
The Nature of the Self: Report of a Two-DayChristian-Vaishnava Conference
Gavin D'Costa 355 Review Article
Dave Tomlinson: The Post Evangelical
Martyn Percy 357 Book Reviews 361 Book Notes 393 Conference Announcements 397 List of Referees 399
Title-page, VOLUME
Contents and Author Index 401
Journal of Contemporary Religion
VOLUME
11 Number 2 May 1996
Articles
Why Religious Movements Succeed or Fail: A Revised GeneralModel
Rodney Stark 133 The Protestant Eruption into Modern Brazilian Politics
Paul Freston 147 The Ramakrishna Sarada Devi Ashram for Women in South Africa
Alleyn Diesel 169 Higher Realities and the Inner Self: One Quest? Transcendence
and the Significance of the Body in the New Age Circuit
Hildegard Van Hove 185 British Buddhism and the New Age
Denise Cush 195 Agape and Karuna: Some Comparisons
William H. Jennings 209 Review Article
Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick: A History of PagenEurope
M. York 219
Book Reviews 227 Book Notes 251
Journal of Contemporary Religion
VOLUME
11 Number 1 January 1996
Articles
Encountering England: Patterns of Conflict and
Accommodation in Two Non-Christian Religions
Judith Coney & Jonathan Tritter 5
Scientology's Relationship with Eastern Religious
Traditions
Stephen A. Kent 21
Hare Krishna and Sanatan Dharm in Britain: The Campaign
for Bhaktivedanta Manor
Malory Nye 37 Symbolic Subject, Subjected Symbol: Mizuko Kuyo,
Gender
and the Social Order in Japan
J. Shawn Landres 57 Religious Responses to Social Changes in Russia:
Traditional and New Religions Compared
Alexander Agadjanian 69
Deconfessionalisation in the Netherlands, 1964-1992
Rob Eisinga, Albert Felling & Jan Lammers 77 Research Reports
Religion and Sexual Values in Poland
Irena Borowik 89 US-Televangelism on German TV
Gerhard Schmied 95
Conference Report
Healing at Bath
George Chryssides 101 Review Article 105 Book Reviews 109
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