Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies (JASANAS) JASANAS Volume 1, February 2005, includes keynote and session papers from the ASANAS 2003 conference, a conference report and book reviews.  Also available as a 174-page soft bound copy. JASANAS Volume 2, February 2006, includes keynote and session papers from the ASANAS 2003 and 2004 conferences, research notes, a position paper and book reviews.  Also available as a 176-page soft bound copy. JASANAS Volume 3, September 2007, challenges orthodoxies in New Age studies.  Also available as a 200-page soft bound copy. Special issues are in preparation on New Age in global contexts; Glastonbury; and with proceedings from Krakow 2006 and BASR 2007 (see below).

 

ScholarsOfNewAge (SONA) email discussion list, from which the idea for the network grew.

 

ASANAS 2008: Prospective sponsors are asked to contact Daren Kemp. The call for papers will be circulated on the SONA discussion list, SOCREL and other academic lists.  Suggested themes include: fieldwork experiences; contemporary holistic Christianity; spirituality and religion; contemporary culture; and the state of the discipline of New Age Studies.

 

BASR 2007: JASANAS sponsored the two opening panels at the annual conference of the British Association for the Study of Religion in Edinburgh, Scotland, 3-6 September 2007.  Audio proceedings are now available, and a special issue of JASANAS is in preparation.

 

Krakow 2006: A special issue of JASANAS will contain papers delivered at the “New Spirituality in Monocultural and Pluralistic Societies”, Krakow, Poland, 9-11 June 2006.  A conference report was published in JASANAS, Volume 3.

 

IAHR 2005: A selection of materials related to New Age studies from the 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 24-30 March 2005.

 

ASANAS 2004: "ASANAS goes mainstream?" was hosted by the University of Wolverhampton, England, 21 May 2004 - full audio proceedings are available

 

ASANAS 2003: our first major international conference, hosted by the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, 30 May - 1 June 2003.  As featured in The Times Higher Education Supplement and The Independent.  Audio files for keynote papers are available.