JASANAS Volume 3

Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies

Volume 3, 2007, ISBN 9780955700705

Editorial, M.I. Bowman and D.J. Kemp

• The Epistemological Foundations of Esoteric Thought and Practice
• Julia Iwersen
• The Epistemology of Esoteric Culture: Spiritual Claim-Making within the American Neopagan Community,
• Marty Laubach
• Towards a Sacramental Understanding of Dextromethorphan
• Joseph Gelfer
• Complicating Spiritual Appropriation: North American Indian Agency in Western Alternative Spiritual Practice
• Christina Welch
• Modern Paganism in the United Kingdom
• Ieuan Jones
• Spiral Bound: Spaces, Selves and Cosmologies of Contemporary Magick
• William Redwood
• Spiritual Direction, Life Coaching and Culture
• Andii Bowsher
• Satanism in the Finnish Youth Culture of the 1990s
• Merja Hermonen

CONFERENCE REPORTS

• “Charming and Crafty: Witchcraft and Paganism inContemporary Media”, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 18-21 May 2006
• Jenny Butler
• “New Spirituality in Monocultural and Pluralistic Societies”, Krakow, Poland, 9-11 June 2006
• Dorota Hall

ASANAS POSITIONS

• $elling Spirituality, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King
• Victor Anderson

BOOK REVIEWS

• New Age and Neopagan Religions in America, Sarah M Pike
• Jochen Scherer
• New Religious Movements in the 21st Century, Philip Lucas & Thomas Robbins, eds
• Dominic Corrywright
• The Twilight of Atheism, Alister McGrath
• Mike King
• Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacoby
• Mike King
• Rave Culture and Religion, Graham St John, ed
• Graham Harvey