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Nova Religio presents scholarly interpretations and examinations of alternative religious movements. Original research, perspectives on the studies of new religions, literature reviews, and conference updates keep religious studies scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians up to date and well informed on a wide range of topics including:

• Ancient Wisdom and New Age groups
• New movements within established religious traditions
• Alternative Christian religions
• New Jewish movements
• Religious organizations based on Asian teachings
• New religious movements from the Middle East
• African, African American, and Black movements
• Immigrant religions in Diaspora

The journal contributes to understanding unconventional religions in their particularities and in relation to the larger social contexts in which they are situated. Nova Religio is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in scope.

Subscription provides free access to all back issues.

Volume 13, Number 2, November 2009

Douglas E. Cowan, Introduction

Stuart A. Wright, Revisiting the Branch Davidian Mass Suicide Debate

Catherine Wessinger, Deaths in the Fire at the Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel: Who Bears Responsibility?

Kenneth G. C. Newport, "A Baptism by Fire": The Branch Davidians and Apocalyptic Self-Destruction

Matthew D. Wittmer, Traces of the Mount Carmel Community: Documentation and Access

Catherine Wessinger, The Lee Hancock Collection: Federal and State Materials on the Branch Davidian Case

Conference Updates

Reviews (Go to the archive for a complete list of reviews in 13, no. 2.)

Association for the Academic Study of New Religions

7th Annual Thomas Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements First Place Winner of $500 is: Jon R. Stone, "Prophecy and Dissonance: A Reassessment of Research Testing the Festinger Theory," in vol. 12, no. 4 (May 2009): 72-90. Second Place Winner of $250 is: Moojan Momen, "Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852," in vol. 12, no. 1 (August 2008): 57-82. For previous Robbins Awards, click here.