Handbook of Nordic New Religions

Introduction

Part 1: Denmark 
1 Mikael Rothstein: The Study of New Religions in Denmark: A Brief and Subjective Research History 1985–2014
2 Olav Hammer: Old New Religions in Scandinavia
3 Sara Møldrup Thejls: MISA and Natha: The Peculiar Story of a Romanian Tantric Yoga School
4 Margit Warburg: The Baha’is of the North
5 Kjersti Hellesøy and James R. Lewis: Danish Dianetics: Scholarship in the Church of Scientology in Scandinavia

Part 2: Finland
6 Tommy Ramstedt: The Study of New Religious Movements in Finland: An Overview of Previous Research
7 Jussi Sohlberg and Kimmo Ketola: From Western Esotericism to New Spirituality: The Diversity of New Age in Finland
8 Måns Broo, Marcus Moberg, Terhi Utriainen and Tommy Ramstedt: Diversification, Mainstreaming, Commercialization, and Domestication – New Religious Movements and Trends in Finland
9 Terhi Utriainen: Combining Christianity and New Age Spirituality: Angel Relation in Finland

Part 3: Norway 
10 Ingvild Sælid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson: The Study of New Religiosity in Norway
11 Siv Ellen Kraft: Royal Angels in the News: The Case of Märtha Louise, Astarte Education and the Norwegian News Press
12 Anne Kalvig: The Spiritist Revival: The Rising Voice of Popular Religion
13 Ann Kristin Eide: Studying Up, Down, Sideways and Through: Re-presenting Seeking in a Norwegian Setting
14 Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen: The Art of Living Foundation in Norway: Indigenization and Continuity
15 Margrethe Løøv: Acem: Disenchanted Meditation
16 Asbjørn Dyrendal: Norwegian ‘Conspirituality’ A Brief Sketch
17 Trude Fonneland: Approval of the Shamanistic Association: A Local Norwegian Construct with Trans-local Dynamics

Part 4: Sweden 
18 Liselotte Frisk: New Religious Movements and Alternative Spirituality as an Academic Research Field in Sweden – Some Reflections
19 Liselotte Frisk: The New Religious Movements – What Happened to Them? A Study of the Church of Scientology, the Children of God, Iskcon, the Unification Church and the Rajneesh Movement and Their Development over Time
20 Peter Åkerbäck: The Spiritual Revolution, the Swedish Way
21 Brian Arly Jacobsen, Göran Larsson and Simon Sorgenfrei: The Ahmadiyya Mission to the Nordic Countries
22 Erik A.W. Östling: Herald of the Cosmic Brother Hood: The Story of the Swedish Contactee Sten Lindgren
23 Jessica Moberg: Are the Space Brothers Socialists? Swedish Indigenization of the UFO Mythical Complex

Part 5: Baltic States and Outside Perspectives
24 Milda Ališauskienė and Massimo Introvigne: Lithuanian Occulture and the Pyramid of Merkinė: Innovation or Continuity?
25 Rasa Pranskevičiūtė: The “Back to Nature” Worldview in Nature-Based Spirituality Movements: The Case of the Anastasians
26 Anita Stasulane: Activity of Hindu-Related Movements and Western Esoteric Groups in Latvia
27 Ringo Ringvee: New Religious Movements and New Age in Estonia
28 Murphy Pizza: Fire and Ice in Midvestjard: American Religion and Norse Identitiy in Minnesota’s Heathen Community