TERESA URREA TIMELINE 1873: Niña Garcia María Rebecca Chávez (later known as Teresa Urrea) was born to Cayetana Chávez in Sinaloa, Mexico. 1877-1880; 1884-1911: The Porfiriato, the period of the presidency of Porfirio Díaz in Mexico during which the government suppressed Indigenous and popular rebellions in the name of “orden y progresso” took place. 1889: Teresa Urrea received the “don,” the gift of healing, and became widely known throughout Northwest Mexico as “La Santa de Cabora” (or “Santa Teresa”) because of her miraculous healings. 1889-1890: Many visited the Cabora Ranch, where Teresa lived, to be healed, including Yaqui and Mayo Indians from the region. Mexican Spiritists and U.S. Spirtualists also visited to assess her power as a Spiritual medium. 1890: Spiritualist and Spiritist presses joined to from the Federación Universal…
PTL TIMELINE 1940 (January 2): Jim Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan. 1961(April 1): Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye LaValley married in Minneapolis. 1965 (September): The Jim and Tammy Show premiered on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) 1966 (November): The 700 Club debuted on CBN. 1972 (November): Bakker formed Trinity Broadcasting Systems (TBS) in Southern California. 1973 (Spring): The PTL Club premiered on TBS. 1974: Jim and Tammy Bakker moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. 1978 (January 2): Bakker broke ground for Heritage USA. 1979 (March): The FCC started an investigation into PTL’s use of funds. 1978: Bakker launched the PTL satellite network. 1980 (December 6): Jim Bakker had a sexual relationship with Jessica Hahn, a twenty-one-year-old church secretary from Long Island, New York. 1982 (April 26): PTL opened its first…
T&L RESOURCES The resources listed in this section of the Teaching &Learning Project offer a variety of materials useful in preparing and delivering courses in the area of alternative and emerging religious and spiritual movements. Course Syllabi Authored Course Texts Edited Volumes Journals, Blogs, Websites, Academic Associations Individual Religious and Spiritual Traditions Donald Westbrook. 2022. L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Documentaries Dereck Daschke and Michael Ashcraft. 2005. New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press. The Teaching Process In addition to the titles listed here, the American Academy of Religion sponsors a book series on Teaching Religious Studies W. Michael Ashcraft. 2019. A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements. New York: Routledge. David G. Bromley, ed. 2007. Teaching…
COURSE RESOURCES The resources listed in this section of the Teaching &Learning Project represent the most recent available volumes are are intended primarily for academics organizing courses on alternative and emerging religious/spiritual movements. Recent Authored Course Texts Lorne. Dawson. 2017. Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements. Toronto: Oxford University. Joseph Laycock. 2022. New Religious Movements: The Basics. New York: Routledge. Hugh Urban. 2015. New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press. Recent Edited Volumes Eileen Barker and Beth Singler, eds. 2021. Radical Transformations in Minority Religions. New York: Routledge. Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis, eds. 2016. Sexuality and New Religious Movements. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Emily Suzanne Clark and Brad Stoddard. 2019. Race and New…
CHILDREN OF SATAN TIMELINE 1963: Marco Dimitri was born. 1975: Dimitri attended the meetings of the association Fratellanza Cosmica. 1982: Marco Dimitri founded the association Bambini di Satana. 1984-1989: Dimitri worked as a private security guard. 1992: After infiltrating the association, the Carabinieri raided a ritual in Savignano sul Rubicone. 1996 (January): Dimitri, vice president Piergiorgio Bonora, and director Gennaro Luongo were incarcerated over accusations of sexual violence. Dimitri attempted suicide. The accusation proved inconsistent and unfounded. 1996 (June): Dimitri was accused of child sex abuse during satanic rites. 1997: Dimitri was acquitted unconditionally. 1998: Dimitri launched the website Bambini di Satana. 2004: Dimitri was awarded compensation for unjust detention. 2012: Dimitri ran for the Chamber of Deputies for the party Democrazia Atea. 2021: Dimitri died in his apartment in…
Dr. Jennifer Koshatka Seman currently teaches courses in Multicultural American history and Latin American history at Metropolitan State University of Denver where she is a Lecturer in History. Her research interests lie in the interaction between subaltern practices and institutional forms of power in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the U.S. West and the ways in which race, gender, and spirituality inform this interaction. Jennifer is the author of Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021), her first book. Borderlands Curanderos about the “small worlds” of two Mexican faith healers, or curanderos, Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo, and how they informed the “larger worlds” of the turn-of-the-century when they crossed the border from Mexico to the United States…
ROY ASCOTT TIMELINE 1934 (October 26): Roy Ascott was born in Bath, England. 1953-1955: Ascott’s National Service was spent as Officer in RAF Fighter Control. 1955-1959: Ascott enrolled in the Fine Art and Art History Program at King's College at the University of Durham. He was awarded the degree of B.A. Hons Fine Art in 1959. 1956-1961: Ascott was appointed Studio Demonstrator, a two-year position, by Victor Pasmore at King’s College at the University of Durham. 1960-1964: Ascott instituted the GroundCourse as Head of Foundation at Ealing School of Art in London. 1963: Ascott had his first solo show, “Diagram Boxes and Analogue Structures,” at Molton Gallery in London. 1964-1967: Ascott held the position of Head of the Department of Fine Art, and implemented the GroundCourse, at the Suffolk…
ENTRY CATEGORIES AFRICA Faith of Unity | Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments | Redeemed Christian Church of God | Shashemene | Zar Spirit Possession in Central Sudan | Zion Christian Church AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITIONS Father Divine | Moorish Science Temple of America | Mother Divine | MOVE | Nation of Islam | Nation of Yahweh | People Love People House of God | St. John Will-I-AmColtrane African Orthodox Church | United House of Prayer ALTERNATIVE POPES Order of St. Charbel | Palmarian Catholic Church | Pope Michael ATHEIST, AGNOSTIC, SKEPTIC James Randi Educational Association | Oasis Network | Religion of Humanity | Sunday Assembly | The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic AUSTRALIA Answers in Genesis | Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) | C3 Church | Comunidade Nova Aliança…
ROSALEEN NORTON TIMELINE 1917 (October 2): Rosaleen “Roie” Miriam Norton was born in Dunedin, New Zealand to an Orthodox Protestant family. 1925 (June): Norton migrated with her family to Lindfield, Sydney, Australia. 1934: Sixteen-year-old Norton published three horror stories in the newspaper, Smith’s Weekly. On the merit of her work, Smith’s hired her as a cadet journalist and illustrator for eight months. 1940 (December 24): Norton married Beresford Lionel Conroy (1914-1988). 1943 (June): An article on Norton, “A Vision of the Boundless,” was published in the magazine Pertinent. Norton was portrayed as a mystic-artist, able to access astral realms through expanded states of consciousness. 1949: Searching for art exhibition spaces, Norton hitchhiked from Sydney to Melbourne with fellow poet and Pertinent contributor, Gavin Greenlees (1930-1983). 1949: Norton was indicted for…
EVERQUEST TIMELINE 1996: John Smedley at Sony Interactive Studios America developed the main concepts for EverQuest. 1999: EverQuest launched online and quickly became more successful than anticipated, setting high standards for the developing culture of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. 2002: The fourth expansion of EverQuest, “Planes of Power,” stressed its simulated religion, offering access to the Plane of Time, but only for avatars that vanquish minions of four elemental deities. 2004: EverQuest II launched online. 2006: After a period of effective exile, the gods returned to Norrath in the original EverQuest. 2009: A special issue of the journal Game Studies was devoted to EverQuest on its tenth anniversary. 2015: EverQuest and EverQuest II were transferred from Sony to Daybreak Game Company. 2016: Plans to release a third version, EverQuest…