{"title":"Review: Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults, directed by Clay Tweel; Heaven’s Gate, hosted by Glenn Washington; The Cult Next Door: The Mystery and Madness of Heaven’s Gate, a Diane Sawyer Special, produced by ABC 20/20","authors":"C. Wessinger","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.98","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48324281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest, edited by Paul Bramadat, Patricia O’Connell Killen, and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42666072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: The Thing About Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions, by David Morgan","authors":"Laura Strudwick","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.93","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47322158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dick Anthony","authors":"J. Richardson","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49044950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eden Consenstein, P. Horák, M. Nygaard, A. Singleton, Laura Strudwick, Benjamin Crace, John Mauger, C. Wessinger, Scott C. Lowe, Bernard Doherty, Alexander Rocklin, D. Hills, Matthew S. Bowman, Jason O. Jeffries, Jacob Hicks, Brian C. Wilson, Dirk von der Horst, E. White, J. Richardson
{"title":"\"Yes, We Do Want to Subvert and Corrupt Young People\": Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Against the Mainstream Media","authors":"Eden Consenstein, P. Horák, M. Nygaard, A. Singleton, Laura Strudwick, Benjamin Crace, John Mauger, C. Wessinger, Scott C. Lowe, Bernard Doherty, Alexander Rocklin, D. Hills, Matthew S. Bowman, Jason O. Jeffries, Jacob Hicks, Brian C. Wilson, Dirk von der Horst, E. White, J. Richardson","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In 1992, the British television news program Dispatches aired clips from a video described as the first ever, eyewitness proof of satanically motivated child abuse. Days later, newspapers reported that the video was misrepresented. The clips were drawn from First Transmissions, an experimental video produced by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (T.O.P.Y.) a geographically disperse occult collective committed to subverting mainstream media. This article provides a detailed history of this incident. First, it uses the event as an entrée into T.O.P.Y.'s magickal media activism. Second, it locates the groups' inadvertent appearance on Dispatches within sweeping changes to the late-20th-century media landscape. Providing this context demonstrates how new possibilities in the production and circulation of audiovisual media provoked religious conflicts and concerns for radical occultists and conservative television journalists alike. While T.O.P.Y.'s uses of media were intended to enable individual self-actualization and to undermine established institutions, their detractors on Dispatches figured underground media economies as sites of satanic conspiracy and worked to discipline their creators.","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":"26 1","pages":"102 - 102 - 105 - 105 - 107 - 107 - 110 - 110 - 111 - 112 - 114 - 114 - 116 - 116 - 118 - 118 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41537665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"If the Base Fundamentals Are Too Much for You . . . \": Reconsidering the Existence of Doctrines in Modern Paganism","authors":"P. Horák","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.30","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article deals with the possible existence of doctrines in modern Paganism. Generally, Pagan studies scholars widely consider modern Paganism a religion without doctrines. Furthermore, Margot Adler, one of the early researchers of modern Paganism, established a narrative that practice is more important than beliefs in modern Paganism. However, based on ethnographic research conducted among modern European Pagans between 2014 and 2017, along with additional secondary data, this article argues that doctrines may emerge in situations of pressure or conflict, or while delineating boundaries and gatekeeping Paganism against other religions. In such situations, beliefs become enforced and turn into the basis of potential doctrines. Doctrines are authoritatively defined theoretical components of religion, comprising teaching, beliefs, and confessions. Their authoritative character has its historical roots in Christianity and tries to keep the doctrinal contents fixed using a dynamic of truth and falsity, which determines orthodoxy—distinguishing right faith from error.","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":"26 1","pages":"30 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48893333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers, by Charles McCrary","authors":"Brian C. Wilson","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47163584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science, by Alicia Puglionesi","authors":"E. White","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48142742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices, by Nancy Tatom Ammerman","authors":"Benjamin Crace","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.94","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49093611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion, by Aled Thomas","authors":"Bernard Doherty","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43172085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}