Academic study of new religious movements

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Three basic questions have been paramount in orienting theory and research on NRMs [

new religious movements
]: what are the identifying markers of NRMs that distinguish them from other types of religious groups?; what are the different types of NRMs and how do these different types relate to the established institutional order of the host society?; and what are the most important ways that NRMs respond to the sociocultural dislocation that leads to their formation?

— Sociologist of religion David G. Bromley[1]

The academic study of new religious movements is known as new religions studies (NRS).[2] The study draws from the disciplines of

new religious movements (NRMs): the information provided by such groups themselves, that provided by ex-members as well as the friends and relatives of members, organizations that collect information on NRMs, the mainstream media, and academics studying such phenomena.[4]

The study of new religions is unified by its topic of interest, rather than by its methodology, and is therefore interdisciplinary in nature.[5] A sizeable body of scholarly literature on new religions has been published, most of it produced by social scientists.[6] Among the disciplines that NRS uses are anthropology, history, psychology, religious studies, and sociology.[7] Of these approaches, sociology played a particularly prominent role in the development of the field,[7] resulting in it being initially confined largely to a narrow array of sociological questions.[8] This came to change in later scholarship, which began to apply theories and methods initially developed for examining more mainstream religions to the study of new ones.[8]

The majority of research has been directed toward those new religions which have attracted a greater deal of public controversy; less controversial NRMs have tended to be the subject of less scholarly research.

Africana studies, and Native American new religions by scholars of Native American studies.[10]

Historical development

In Japan, the academic study of new religions appeared in the years following the Second World War.[11][12]

In the 1960s, American sociologist

Prentice-Hall as Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith. It is considered to be one of the most important and widely cited studies of the process of religious conversion, as well as one of the first sociological studies of a new religious movement.[14][15]

In Western nations the study of new religions became a distinct field in the 1970s;

cargo cults by anthropologists.[16] This Western academic study of new religions emerged in response to growing public concerns regarding the emergence of various NRMs during the 1970s.[17] By the latter part of that decade, increasing numbers of papers on new religions were being presented at the annual conferences of the American Academy of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Association for the Sociology of Religion.[9] The manner in which the scholarly study of new religions rose to prominence due to the public perception that these movements were social threats bore similarities with the manner in which Islamic studies grew in Western nations following the September 11 attacks in 2001.[10] The study of new religions would only be fully embraced by the Western religious studies establishment in the 1990s.[16]

In 1988, the charity INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) was established by Barker, who was then a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. The organization was supported by the UK Home Office and the British established churches and was designed to conduct research and disseminate accurate information about new religions.[18] Barker established INFORM due to her "conviction that a great deal of unnecessary suffering has resulted from ignorance of the nature and characteristics of the current wave of [NRMs] in the West."[19] Also in 1988, the Italian scholar Massimo Introvigne established CESNUR (Centre for Studies on New Religions) in Turin; it brought together academics studying NRMs in both Europe and North America.[20] In the United States, CESNUR gained representation through the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California, which was directed by J. Gordon Melton.[21]

Scholars of new religion often operate in a politicized environment given that their research can be cited in legal briefs and judicial decisions regarding NRMs.

cult apologists" is sometimes used.[26]

The term "cult wars" has been used to describe controversies in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, when academics with a differing views of NRMs confronted each other, including through lawsuits. By the late 2000s, the confrontation had started subsiding.[citation needed]

Notable researchers

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Inclusion in this list assumes having both the requisite training as well as actually conducting at least one research study on

new religious movements
(using accepted methodological standards common in the research community), published in a peer-reviewed journal or academic book.

Name Lifetime Field Notes
Arthur Fauset 1899–1983 Anthropology Fauset was a noted civil rights activist, anthropologist, folklorist, and educator. He belonged to the Philadelphia Anthropology Society, the American Anthropological Association, and the American Folklore Society. Elsie Clews Parsons supported him throughout his career in anthropology and with her support Fauset published his PhD on African American cults in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, Black Gods of the Metropolis in 1944.[27]
Stephen Glazier Anthropology Glazier is a member of the graduate faculty in anthropology at the
Spiritual Baptists. He has served as president of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and secretary of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.[28]
Alice Beck Kehoe 1934– Anthropology Kehoe was professor of anthropology at
University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Marquette University, and the author of several books on new religious movements among Native American peoples, including the Ghost Dance.[29]
Karla Poewe 1941– Anthropology Poewe is an anthropologist and historian. She is the author of ten academic books and fifty peer reviewed articles in international journals. Currently Poewe is professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Adjunct Research Professor at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England. She is married to Irving Hexham.[30] Poewe and Hexham co-authored Understanding Cults and New Religions (1986) and New Religions as Global Cultures (1997).[31]
Thomas Alexander 1935– History Alexander, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, is the author of many scholarly books and articles on the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[32]
Jonathan M. Butler
 		1948– History Butler is an historian of religion. He worked as an associate professor of church history at
Adventist Heritage. He authored an article in 1979 claiming Ellen White's endtime scenario was culturally conditioned to the point of being more at place in her time than now.[33][34][35]
Jean-Pierre Chantin 1961– History Chantin is a French historian, associated with the
sects from 1905 to 2000, asking: "disputes or religious innovations?"[40]
Olav Hammer 1958– History Hammer is a Professor of
History of Religion at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, with a research focus on the application of critical theory in the context of religious change and innovation.[41][42]
Ronald Hutton 1953– History Hutton is an English historian. Educated at
Neopaganism, Wicca, and related topics.[43][44]
Jean-Francois Mayer
 		1957– History Mayer is a
religious historian and director of the institute Religioscope. He has a doctorate degree in history at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 (1984). From 1991 to 1998, he worked as an analyst on international affairs and policy for the Swiss federal government. In 1999, he founded a firm of strategic researches named JFM Recherches et Analyses, and taught at the University of Freiburg from 1999 to 2007.[45] In 2007, Mayer founded the Institute Religioscope and became the director. He contributed in the writing of several magazines, including Politica Hermetica, Religioscope and Religion Watch. His writing focuses on contemporary religious movements and cults, including Islam, Unification Church, the Church of Scientology, the Order of the Solar Temple and the Pilgrims of Arès.[46]
Mikael Rothstein 1961– History Rothstein is an associate professor of
religious history at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.[47][48] In 2002 he was on the board of the Danish Association for the History of Religions (DAHR) and the editorial boards of the publications Renner Studies on New Religions (Aarhus University Press) and Nye Religioner (Gyldendal).[49]
He is the author of several books on religious history and especially on the role of new religious movements, among them: Belief Transformations: Some Aspects of the Relationship between Science and Religion in Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) (1996), Secular Theories on Religion: Current Perspectives (2000) (co-author with Tim Jensen), New Age Religion and Globalization (2002), and New Religions in a Postmodern World (2003) (co-editor with Reender Kranenborg)
James Charles Napier Webb
 		1946–1980 Scotland James Charles Napier Webb was an historian and biographer. He was born in Edinburgh, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is remembered primarily for two works The Occult Underground and The Occult Establishment. Webb traced the influence of occult and mystical groups and writers on literature, philosophy and politics.[50]
Stephen J. Stein 1940–2022 History of religion Stephen Joseph Stein was an American academic, author, and educator focused on religion in the United States. He was the Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and served as President of the American Society of Church History. His notable writings on new religious movements include The Shaker Experience in America (1992), Alternative American Religious (2000), and Communities of Dissent (2003).[51][52]
Ferdinando Sardella 1960– History of religion Ferdinando Sardella is a Swedish scholar of
Gaudiya Vaisnavism in the 20th century and founder of a movement called the Gaudiya Math.[55]
Robin Munro 1952–2021 Jurisprudence Munro is a legal scholar and author. He received his PhD from the Department of Law, School of Oriental & African Studies,
secret societies.[57][58]
Martin Gardner 1914–2010 Mathematics Gardner was an American mathematics and science author. He wrote the
Urantia (the topic of his 1995 book published by Prometheus Books).[59][60][61][62]
Diane Winston
 		1951– Media and Religion Winston is a professor of Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the
Salvation Army.[66][67]
James R. Lewis 1949– Philosophy Lewis, a lecturer in philosophy at the
University of Wisconsin, has been a prolific author and editor of books on new religious movements such as The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (2004); he also edits the Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion series and is co-editor of Ashgate's Controversial New Religions series.[68]
Frederick Sontag 1924–2009 Philosophy Sontag, an author and professor of philosophy at Pomona College, was considered an expert on the Unification Church. In the 1970s he interviewed church founder Sun Myung Moon and church members in Europe, America, and Asia while researching for a book published in 1977.[69][70][71]
Raphaël Liogier 1967– Political science Liogier is the director of the Observatoire du religieux
Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the Institut de management public et de gouvernance territoriale. He co-authored several articles on the theme of religion.[73] Liogier wrote his thesis on Buddhism under the direction of Bruno Étienne, a professor at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, and has among other things published a book on secularism in 2006. He works particularly on the issues related to Islam and cults.[74] He has also criticized the "anti-sect" government agency MIVILUDES.[75]
John Gordon Clark 1926–1999 Psychiatry Clark was a doctor and professor at
Journal of the American Medical Association.[77]
Marc Galanter
 		1931– Psychiatry Galanter is director of the division of alcoholism and drug abuse in the department of psychiatry at
New York University School of Medicine.[78][79] He is the editor of Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association,[80] and author of Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion.[81]
Saul V. Levine 1938– Psychiatry Levine is a professor of psychiatry in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[82] He has researched cults and deprogramming, with work published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry,[83] and the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal.[84]
Robert Jay Lifton 1926– Psychiatry Lifton is a psychiatrist who has focused his research in the area of
coercive persuasion.[85] He wrote an article on the creation of cults for The Harvard Mental Health Letter,[86] and is the author of Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism,[87] and Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism.[88]
Peter A. Olsson 1941– Psychiatry Olsson is a psychiatrist affiliated with
destructive cults and religious groups.[90][91]
Louis Jolyon West 1924–1999 Psychiatry West was a psychiatrist affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles.[92] He held positions of professor and chairman at the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA.[93] He contributed research on cults to publications including the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry,[94] and Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association.[80] West served on the advisory board of the Cult Awareness Network.
Dick Anthony 1939—2022 Psychology Anthony holds a PhD from the
mind control theories and has defended NRMs, arguing that involvement in them has often been shown to have beneficial, rather than harmful effects.[97][99][100]
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi 1943– Psychology Beit-Hallahmi graduated with a
The University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Hebrew University, Michigan State University, and Tel Aviv University.[101] Beit-Hallahmi is the author of Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Bibliography, and co-author of The Social Psychology of Religion; he edited Research in Religious Behavior.[101] He has published scholarship analyzing practices within standards of researching new religious movements.[102]
Steve Eichel 1954– Psychology Eichel is a
mind control, brainwashing, and deprogramming. He is a former president of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the 2006–07 president of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, the national membership academy comprising American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) board-certified counseling psychologists. Eichel is the president of the board of the International Cultic Studies Association
(ICSA).
Michael Langone 1947– Psychology Langone is the executive director of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) and he has written widely on alternative religious movements.[103][104]
Paul R. Martin 1946–2009 Psychology A former member of the
Great Commission Association of Churches group, Martin was a psychologist and the founder and executive director of the Christian Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center. He consulted with several institutions, published on cult-related subjects, and collaborated in fieldwork focusing on the prediction and treatment of psychological damage related to involvement with high-demand religious movements.[105]
Jesse S. Miller 1940–2006 Psychology Miller taught a course in
UC Berkeley.[106]
Miller specialized in analysis of hypnotherapy.
Margaret Singer 1921–2003 Psychology Singer was professor emeritus in the University of California at Berkeley's department of psychology. She had published widely on cultic groups, coercion, pseudo-therapudic practices, and other areas,
brainwashing theories, of which she was a strong proponent. She sat as an advisory board member for anti-cult groups the Cult Awareness Network and the International Cultic Studies Association
(ICSA).
Jan van der Lans 1933–2002 Psychology Van der Lans was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now called Radboud University Nijmegen). From 1977 onwards he did research among followers of new religious movements. In 1979 he instigated a European platform of psychologists of religion and until 1997 he was chairperson of the International Committee of European Psychologists of Religion. In 1992 he became a professor in the psychology of religion at the university. Van der Lans was involved in the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (German: Internationale Gesellschaft für Religionspsychologie) and as of 1998 part of its executive committee. He was also a member of the Commission Internationale de Psychologie Religieuse Scientifique.[108]
Steven Hassan 1954– Psychiatry Hassan formed a method of counseling former members of controversial religious groups, called the Strategic Interaction Approach.
Sydney Morning Herald,[116] The New York Times,[117] The Globe and Mail,[118] the Herald Sun,[119] and Newsweek.[120] In the book Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates edited by James A. Beckford and John Walliss, Hassan is described as a "scholar" belonging to the faction of "cult bashers".[121]
George D. Chryssides
 		1945– Religious studies Chryssides is the author, contributor and editor for several references covering new religious movements. He is senior lecturer for Religious Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, and has served in various organizations related to the study of religion.[122][123]
Dan Cohn-Sherbok 1945– Religious studies Cohn-Sherbok is a rabbi of Reform Judaism, a Jewish theologian and a prolific author on religion. He is Professor Emeritus of Judaism at the University of Wales. He has written on Messianic Judaism, Christian Zionism, and other new religious movements related to Judaism.[124]
Douglas E. Cowan 1958– Religious studies Cowan teaches at Renison College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is one of the co-general editors of Nova Religio: The Journal of New and Emergent Religions.[125]
Thomas Forsthoefel Religious studies Forsthoefel is a professor of
Loyola University of Chicago, 1987), Epistemologies of religious experience in medieval and modern Vedānta (University of Chicago Divinity School, 1998), Knowing beyond knowledge: epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita (Ashgate, 2002), Gurus in America co-editor with Cynthia Ann Humes (SUNY Press, 2005), Soulsong: Seeking Holiness, Coming Home (Orbis Books
, 2006), and The Dalai Lama: essential writings editor (Orbis Books, 2008).
Eugene V. Gallagher 1950– Religious studies Gallagher is a professor of religious studies at
traditions. He is the author of several books, mainly on the topic of new religious movements.[128] In 1995 Gallagher and James D. Tabor, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, co-authored Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. The book blamed the 1993 Waco siege partly on misunderstanding of religious issues by law enforcement personnel.[129]
Mattias Gardell 1959– Religious studies Gardell is a scholar of
Odinism). His 1995 dissertation on Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam was published in both British and American editions.[130]
Ron Geaves 1948– Religious studies Geaves is a professor of religion at Liverpool Hope University in England. He has become known by his expertise in the adaptation and transmigration of religions to the West, especially Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism. He is the author of several books, including The Sufis of Britain, which explored the manifestations of Islamic mysticism in the UK and The Continuum Glossary of Religious Terminology an extensive glossary of seven major world faiths. He was one of the earliest Western students of Maharaji (Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji), and has written a number of papers related to Maharaji and his organizations, such as the Divine Light Mission, and Elan Vital.[131][132]
Andreas Grünschloß 1957– Religious studies Grünschloß, professor of religious studies at
Göttingen University, is a researcher with a focus on new religious movements (especially UFO religions), Buddhism, syncretism and related topics who has contributed to various encyclopedias, anthologies and scholarly journals.[41] He is also co-editor of the Marburg Journal of Religion.[133]
Irving Hexham 1943– Religious studies Hexham is professor of religious studies at the
National Socialism.[137]
Cynthia Ann Humes 1958– Religious Studies Humes is a professor of religious studies at
new religious movements in the United States.[141] In 2008 she criticized the Transcendental Meditation movement for its seeming misunderstanding of Indian classical music,[142] while in 2005 she had criticized its exclusivity.[143]
Danny Jorgensen 1951– Religious studies Jorgensen is a professor at the department of religious studies of the
Neopaganism, Witchcraft, Scientology, and others.[146]
Reender Kranenborg 1942– Religious studies Kranenborg was an editor of the magazine Religious Movement in the Netherlands published by the institute of
Free University in Amsterdam.[147] He received his PhD in the theological faculty about the subject of self-realization and he has a seat at the Comitato Scientifico (scientific committee) of the CESNUR.[148]
Jeffrey Kripal
 		1962– Religious studies Kripal is a professor of religious studies and chair of the department of religious studies at
Asian religions, and the history of Western esotericism from ancient gnosticism to the New Age, including[149] the Ramakrishna Mission,[150] and the Esalen Institute.[151]
J. Gordon Melton 1942– Religious studies Melton is author of, co-author of, or contributor to many standard references and articles on emergent and established religious groups, including the Encyclopedia of American Religions. He is the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions based in Santa Barbara, California.[68][152]
Timothy Miller 1944– Religious studies Miller is a professor and author with a special interest in communalism and new religious movements. He is a professor of
University of Kansas at Lawrence.[153][154] In 1995 his book America's Alternative Religions was published by SUNY Press.[155]
John A. Saliba 1937– Religious studies Saliba is professor of religious studies at the
Jesuit.[156] He advocates a conciliatory approach towards new religious movements, arguing that "dialogue is more useful than diatribe".[157] He notes that for most people membership in a NRM is temporary, and maintains that NRMs can act as a temporary safe haven for young adults, enabling them to stabilise their lives.[157][158] He is critical of the anti-cult movement
and has remarked that "the neutral stance of the social sciences is a stance which has often been interpreted as favoring the NRMs".
Larry Shinn 1942– Religious studies Shinn is president of
United Methodist minister. He is notable for accepting the bona fides of the ISKCON even before a majority of academia accepted their (ISKCON's) traditional and orthodox nature.[159]
Mark Silk 1951– Religious studies Silk is a professor of religion in public life at
Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut).[160][161] In the 1980s and 1990s Silk was a regular contributor to The New York Times, contributing essays and book reviews on feminist theology,[162] new religious movements,[163] Jewish identity, and other religion-related topics.[164] In 1995 he criticized the American news media for their unbalanced coverage of new religious movements when compared to more established religious institutions.[165]
Catherine Wessinger 1952– Religious studies Wessinger is a professor of
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions[166] and served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during the Montana Freemen standoff.[167]
Eileen Barker 1938– Sociology Barker is professor emeritus of the sociology department at the London School of Economics. She is founder and chairperson of INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements), past-Chairperson of the British Sociological Association's Study Group for the Sociology of Religion, past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and past-President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Her work has included hundreds of articles, books, reviews and consultations with governments.[168][169]: 1–5 
James A. Beckford 1942–2022 Sociology Beckford is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former president of both the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. He has authored or edited a dozen books about new religious movements and cult controversies and has contributed about 100 journal articles and book chapters to the field.[170]: x [171] He is associated with Eileen Barker's INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements), a UK charity that disseminates information on NRMs to government and the public at large.[172]
David G. Bromley 1941– Sociology Bromley is a professor of sociology at
Anson Shupe became "the primary social science interpreters of that countermovement in a series of books and articles".[173]
He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
Peter B. Clarke 1940–2011 Sociology Clarke was professor emeritus of the history and sociology of religion at King's College London, a professorial member of the faculty of theology at the University of Oxford, and the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion. His publications include Japanese New Religions: In Global Perspective (editor), New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World and the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements (editor).[174][175]
Lorne L. Dawson Sociology Dawson is professor of sociology and chair of the department of religious studies at the University of Waterloo. His publications include Comprehending Cults (1998), Cults and New Religions (2003) and Religion Online (2004); in addition, he has authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the study of new religions, religion and the internet and related topics.[98]
Régis Dericquebourg 1947– Sociology Dericquebourg is a
Jean Seguy. He holds a doctorate in psychosociology and a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology from the Institute of Paris 7.[176] He is a member of the Group for the Study of Religions and Secularity at the National Center for the Scientific Studies in Paris, and a professor at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. He published five books, many sociological articles in collective books, encyclopedias and journals and regularly participated in conferences on sociology. His contributions are mainly on Jehovah's Witnesses, healing churches and new religious movements.[177]
Karel Dobbelaere 1933– Sociology Dobbelaere is an emeritus professor at both the
Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He is past president and general secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. His teaching focus was on sociology and the sociology of religion. His research fields have included changes in religious participation and new religious sectarian movements.[169]
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Ronald Enroth 1938– Sociology Enroth is a widely published author and prominent Christian countercultist who has done work in the area of abusive evangelical Christian congregations and new religious movements. He is professor emeritus of sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.[178][179][180]
Daniel Foss 1940–2014 Sociology Foss is a sociologist and author. He taught at the School for Critical Studies at the
Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, Swami Muktananda and the Revolutionary Youth Movement in Theory and Society.[181] He later co-authored, with Ralph Larkin, a more focused article dealing with Guru Maharaj Ji and his followers, which was published in Sociological Analysis,[182] and a piece dealing with the vocabulary used in these social movements, in Social Text.[183]
Jeffrey K. Hadden 1937–2003 Sociology Hadden was Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, and founder of an internet resource on new religious movements, the Religious Movements Homepage Project.[41][184]
Stephen J. Hunt 1954– Sociology Hunt is a professor of sociology at the
Pentecostal Churches.[170]: 14 [185]
Massimo Introvigne 1955– Sociology Introvigne is the director of the Center for Studies of New Religions (CESNUR) in Turin, Italy; his publications include over thirty books on the history and sociology of religion (among them the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia), as well as over a hundred scholarly articles in various languages.[41][186]
Benton Johnson 1928– Sociology Johnson is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon, former chair of both its sociology department and department of religious studies, and former editor of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and The Religious Research Association. His work focuses on church-sect typology, new religious movements and mainline U.S. Protestant denominations.[100]: 251–252 [187]
Stephen A. Kent Sociology Kent is a professor in the department of sociology at the
Children of God and Scientology, and has cautioned against downplaying the risks associated with involvement in such groups.[188][189]
Janja Lalich 1945– Sociology Lalich is a widely published author and educator who has done work in the area of cults and psychological influence. She is the head of the Cult Recovery and Information Center in Alameda, California.
David C. Lane 1956– Sociology Lane is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California. He is the author of: The Making of a Spiritual Movement: The Untold Story of Paul Twitchell and Eckankar, The Unknowing Sage:Life and Work of Baba Faqir Chand, and Exposing Cults: When the Skeptical Mind Confronts the Mystical.[190]
John Lofland 1936– Sociology Lofland is a sociologist, professor, and author best known for his studies of the peace movement and for his first book, Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith which was based on field work among a group of Unification Church members in California in the 1960s. It is considered to be one of the most important and widely cited studies of the process of religious conversion, and one of the first modern sociological studies of a new religious movement.[14][100][191] He earned a PhD in sociology the University of California, Berkeley based on his Unification Church study. Since 1970 he has been a professor in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis, where he is now Professor of Sociology Emeritus.[192]
Richard Ofshe 1941– Sociology Ofshe is a widely published author and expert witness who has done work in the area of cultic mind control and the use of hypnosis for recovering repressed memories. He is a professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.[193]
Susan J. Palmer 1946– Sociology Palmer teaches in
Concordia University and as professor of religious studies at Dawson College; she is the author of more than sixty articles as well as the author or editor of eight books on new religious movements.[68]
Margaret Poloma 1943– Sociology Poloma is a professor and author who is known for her research on the
professor emeritus at the University of Akron.[195]
Adam Possamai 1970– Sociology Possamai is currently co-director of the Religion and Society Research Centre at the
the Church of Satan, Jediism, and other new religious movements.[196]
James T. Richardson
 		1941– Sociology Richardson has done work in the area of minority religions and connections between law and religion. He directs the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada (Reno).[199][200]
Thomas Robbins 1943–2015 Sociology Robbins was an independent scholar affiliated with the Santa Barbara Centre for Humanistic Studies; trained at
New School for Social Research, Yale University and the Graduate Theological Union and is a leading contributor of social scientific literature on new religious movements.[100]
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Anson Shupe
 		1948–2021 Sociology Shupe was a professor of sociology at the joint campus of Indiana State University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has done fieldwork on a number of new religious movements, in particular the Unification Church, and has also studied the anti-cult movement; he and David G. Bromley became "the primary social science interpreters of that countermovement in a series of books and articles".[100]: 63, 467 [201]
Roy Wallis 1945–1990 Sociology Wallis was a
sociologist and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Queen's University Belfast. He is mostly known for his creation of the seven signs that differentiate a religious congregation from a sectarian church, which he created while researching the Scientology church. After publishing his book The Road to Total Freedom, an in-depth analysis of the sociology of Scientology, he was harassed by the church both legally and personally.[202][203] Forged letters, apparently from Wallis, were sent to his colleagues implicating him in various scandalous activities.[204] He introduced the distinction between world-affirming and world-rejecting new religious movements.[100]
Margit Warburg 1952– Sociology Warburg is a professor at the University of Copenhagen's department of history of religions. She specializes in the sociology of religion with emphasis on emergent religious sects and religious minorities. She has written extensively on the effect of technology on religion and new religious movements.[205]
Bryan R. Wilson 1926–2004 Sociology Wilson was reader emeritus in sociology and an emeritus fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. He taught at Oxford for over 30 years, and was visiting professor at various universities worldwide. He was honorary president of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. His work was in the typology of sects, the secularization of religious groups, and relationships between minority groups and governments.[100]: 557–558 [169]: xiii [206]
Benjamin Zablocki 1941–2020 Sociology Zablocki was the head of the sociology department at Rutgers University. He has published on communes, leadership roles in new religious movements, and the academic debates regarding brainwashing and methodology in the study of new religion.[207][208][209][210]
Walter Hollenweger 1927–2016 Theology Hollenweger was a
Swiss theologian and author, recognized as an expert on worldwide Pentecostalism. His two best known books are: The Pentecostals (1972) and Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide (1997)[211] In 1955 he began studying at the faculty of theology of the University of Zurich
. He wrote a ten volume doctoral dissertation Handbuch der Pfingstbewegung (Handbook of the Pentecostal Movement) published in 1966. The core of this work was published in various languages and became a standard work on Pentecostalism. His numerous publications in the years following made him one of the premier interpreters of this movement.
Graham Harvey 1959– Religious studies Harvey specializes in
Modern Paganism, indigenous religions, and animism. He wrote books such as Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism (1997) and What Do Pagans Believe? (2007), and he edited volumes like Paganism Today: Witches, Druids, the Goddess and Ancient Earth Traditions for the Twenty-First Century (with Charlotte Hardman; 1996).[212]
Titus Hjelm 1974– Religious studies and sociology Hjelm is a professor in the study of religion at
neopagan movements in Nordic countries. For example, he published "Between Satan and Harry Potter: Legitimating Wicca in Finland," Journal of Contemporary Religion 21, no. 1 (2006).[213]
Jeffrey Kaplan 1954– Religious studies Kaplan specializes in race, racism, white supremacy, and their intersections with new religious movements and religion generally. He co-edited with Heléne Lööw a volume named The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization (2002).[214]
David A. Halperin Psychiatry Halperin is a psychiatrist interested in the intersects between religion and psychiatry and psychology. He edited the volume Psychodynamic Perspectives on Religion, Sect, and Cult (1983).[215]
Colin Campbell Sociology Campbell wrote an influential article in A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain about the taxonomy of "cult" and secularization.[216]
Harriet Whitehead Anthropology Whitehead wrote Renunciation and Reformation: A Study of Conversion in an American Sect (1987) as an anthropological study of Scientology.[217]
Jennifer E. Porter Religious studies Porter is a professor of religious studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She specializes in religion and popular culture, but occasionally writes on Spiritualism.[218][219]
Susan Raine Sociology Raine is an associate professor at MacEwan University. She specializes in UFO religions, new religious movements, conspiracy theory, and paranormality. She co-edited with Stephen Kent the volume Scientology in Popular Culture: Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy (2017).[220]
Diana Tumminia Religious studies and sociology Tumminia is a professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento. She has written works like When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group (2005) on the UFO religion Unaris.[221]
Jesper Aagaard Petersen Religious studies Petersen is a professor of Social and Educational Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, specializing in religious education. He co-authored The Invention of Satanism (2016) with James R. Lewis and Asbjørn Dyrendal.[222]
Asbjørn Dyrendal Religious studies Dyrendal is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He specializes in conspiracy theories and new religious movements. He wrote, for example, "The Role of Conspiracy Mentality and Paranormal Beliefs in Predicting Conspiracy Beliefs Among Neopagans," International Journal for the Study of New Religions 8, no. 1 (2018): 73–91 with James R. Lewis and Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.[223]
Erik A. W. Östling History of religion Östling is professor and Administrative Director of the departments of ethnology, history of religions, and gender studies at the University of Stockholm. He has written works on Raëlism, a major UFO religion, like "'Those who came from the sky': Ancient Astronauts and Creationism in the Raëlian Religion," in Controversial New Religions, edited by James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen, 368–82 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).[224]
Benjamin E. Zeller Religious studies Zeller specializes in American new religious movements and religion's relationship with science and culture. He wrote Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion (2014) and Prophets and Protons: New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America (2010).[225]
Elisabeth Arweck 1959– Religious studies Arweck specializes in religious diversity in Europe and the United States.[226] She wrote Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions (2006) which analyzes the perception and responses for and against NRMs in various cultures.[227]
Edward Breschel Sociology Breschel is a professor of sociology, social work, and criminology at Morehead State University. He co-authored "General Population and Institutional Elite Support for Social Control of New Religious Movements: Evidence from National Data Survey," Behavioral Science and the Law 10 (1992): 39–52 with David G. Bromley.[228]
Richard Kent Evans Religious studies Evans is visiting professor of religion at Haverford College. He authored MOVE: An American Religion (2020) about the MOVE movement in Philadelphia, which was sometimes described as an NRM.[229]
Stefano Bigliardi 1981– Philosophy of religion and science Bigliardi is an associate professor of philosophy at
Bambini di Satana, and Stella Azzurra (an Italian branch of Santo Daime
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