A comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities

Extremely distant and distinct indigenous communities have over recent decades become more like themselves and more like each other – a paradox prevalent glob

Since the mid-twentieth century, religious movements identifying themselves as Paganism, shamanism, native faiths and others have experimented with two forms of

For centuries the accommodation between Japan and Christianity has been an uneasy one. Compared with others of its Asian neighbors, the churches in Japan have n

* This Handbook has won the ICAS Edited Volume Accolade 2019. Brill warmly congratulates editors Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter and their authors with this awar