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THOMAS ROBBINS AWARD
FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE STUDY OF NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

Prize winners are selected by members of the Board Members of the Association for the Academic Study of New Religions from each published volume of the journal.

Sixth Annual Awards for Articles Appearing in Vol. 11

Co-First Place Winners of $375 each are:

Mark Sedgwick, "Jihad, Modernity, and Sectarianism," in vol. 11, no. 2 (November 2007): 6-27; and

Peter Staudenmaier, "Race and Redemption: Ethnic and Racial Evolution in Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy," in vol. 11, no. 3 (February 2008): 4-36.

Fifth Annual Awards for Articles Appearing in Vol. 10

First prize of $500 to Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Shûkyô Asobi and Miyazaki Hayao's Anime," in Nova Religio 10, no. 3 (February 2007): 73-95.

Second prize of $250 to Lynn P. Eldershaw, "Collective Identity and the Postcharismatic Fate of Shambhala International," in Nova Religio 10, no. 4 (May 2007): 72-102.

Fourth Annual Awards for Articles Appearing in Vol. 9

First Prize of $500 to E. Burke Rochford, Jr. and Kendra Bailey, “Almost Heaven: Leadership, Decline and Transformation of New Vrindaban,” Nova Religio 9, no. 3 (February 2006): 6-23.

Second Prize of $250 to Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd, “Accommodation and Reformation in The Family/Children of God,” Nova Religio 9, no. 1 (August 2005): 67-92.

Third Annual Awards for Articles Appearing in Vol. 8

First Prize of $500 to Adrian Ivakhiv, “In Search of Deeper Identities: Neopaganism and ‘Native Faith’ in Contemporary Ukraine,” Nova Religio 8, no. 3 (March 2005): 7-38.

Second Prize of $250 to Martha Bradley, “Cultural Configurations of Mormon Fundamentalist Polygamous Communities,” Nova Religio 8, no. 1 (July 2004): 5-38.

Second Annual Awards for Articles Appearing in Vol. 7

First Prize of $500 to Hugh B. Urban, “The Beast with Two Backs: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic and the Exhaustion of Modernity,” Nova Religio 7, no. 3 (March 2004): 7-25.

Second Prize of $250 to Anne Hallum, “Ecotheology and Environmental Praxis in Guatemala,” Nova Religio 7, no. 2 (November 2003): 55-70.

First Annual Awards for Articles Appearing in Vol. 6

First Prize of $500 to David Cook, “Suicide Attacks or ‘Martyrdom Operations’ in Contemporary Jihad Literature,” Nova Religio 6, no. 1 (October 2002): 7-44.

Second Prize of $250 to David Ownby, “A History for Falun Gong: Popular Religion and the Chinese State since the Ming Dynasty,” Nova Religio 6, no. 2 (April 2003): 223-43.