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New Religious Movements in the Long Nineteenth Century

Lydia Willsky-Ciollo

This introduction provides a brief overview of the period known as the “long nineteenth century,” which played host to and helped to shape numerous new religious movements. Highlighting the impact and occasional convergence of various political, social, and religious movements and events in both the United States and globally, this essay seeks to show that the examination of new religious movements in the nineteenth century offers a means of applying scholarship in new religious movements to religions that may be defined as “old,” while simultaneously opening new ways of understanding new religions more broadly. In the process, this overview provides background for the articles included in this special issue of Nova Religio, which explore subjects including religious utopianism; gender, politics, and Pentecostalism; Mormonism and foreign missions; and the relationships of new religious movements to visual art.

Featured Articles

  • New Religious Movements and Food
    Benjamin E. Zeller
  • Archaeology and New Religious Movements
    Jeb J. Card
  • Jonestown, Forty Years On
    Rebecca Moore
  • Reframing the History of New Religious Movements
    Michael Driedger, Johannes C. Wolfart
  • Marian Apparitions as New Religious Movements
    Jill M. Krebs, Joseph Laycock
  • Scientology
    Régis Dericquebourg
  • Introduction: New Religions in Eastern Europe
    Milda Ališauskienė
  • New Religious Movements and the Visual Arts
    Massimo Introvigne
  • Conspiracy Theories and the Study of Alternative and Emergent Religions
    David G. Robertson

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    New Religious Movements in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
    November 2019, Vol. 23 No. 2, (pp. 5-17) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.5
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    “All is Harmony in that Department”: Religious Expressions within the Fourierist Communal Experiments of the 1840s
    Amy Hart
    November 2019, Vol. 23 No. 2, (pp. 18-41) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.18
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    Bobs and the “Character of Our Citizenship”Early Pentecostals, Women, and Public Life in the United States of America
    Leah Payne
    November 2019, Vol. 23 No. 2, (pp. 42-63) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.42
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    Separating Church and State in ItalyCivil Marriage and the Mormon Connection
    Michael W. Homer
    November 2019, Vol. 23 No. 2, (pp. 64-84) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.64
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    Esoteric Art Strikes Back
    Massimo Introvigne
    November 2019, Vol. 23 No. 2, (pp. 85-93) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.85
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    Jonestown Documentaries on the Fortieth Anniversary
    Jason S. Dikes
    November 2019, Vol. 23 No. 2, (pp. 94-104) DOI: 10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.94
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Current Issue

Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions: 23 (2)

Vol. 23 No. 2, November 2019
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ISSN: 1092-6690
eISSN: 1541-8480
Frequency: Quarterly
Published: August, November, February, May

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Media Reviews

New, both online and print: peer reviewed Nova Religio reviews of treatments of new and alternative religions in popular media (documentaries, television, etc.).

Susan J. Palmer, "Wild Wild Rajneeshpuram" (to appear in Nova Religio 22 no. 4).

 

About the Journal

Nova Religio presents scholarly interpretations and examinations of emergent and alternative religious movements. Original research, perspectives on the study of new religions, literature reviews, and conference updates keep scholars well informed on a wide range of topics including: new religions; new movements within established religious traditions; neo-indigenous, neo-polytheistic and revival movements; ancient wisdom and New Age groups; diasporic religious movements; and marginalized and stigmatized religions.

 

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