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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…

EVELYN UNDERHILL TIMELLINE 1875 (December 6): Evelyn Underhill was born in Wolverhampton, England. 1888–1891:  Underhill attended Sandgate House boarding school in Folkestone. 1891:  Underhill was confirmed in Anglican Church. 1897–1898:  Underhill attended King’s College, University of London, and began a period of atheism. 1898:  Underhill made her first trip to Italy. 1904:  Underhill’s first novel, The Grey World, was published. Her vocation as a spiritual director began. She met Ethel Ross Barker, who was to become her best friend. 1907:  Underhill had a conversion experience at Southampton. Her second novel, The Lost Word, was published. She married Hubert Stuart Moore in July. 1909:  Underhill’s third novel, The Column of Dust, was published. 1911:  Mysticism: The Path of Eternal Wisdom was published under the pseudonym of John Cordelier. 1912:  Immanence: Book…

AHMADI RELIGION OF PEACE AND LIGHT TIMELINE 1968 (March 21):  Ahmed al-Hassan was born in Basra, Iraq. 1983 (July 27):  Abdullah Hashem was born in Indiana, United States, from an Egyptian father and an American mother. 1999:  Ahmed al-Hassan announced that he was the prophesied Yamani and a messenger from Imam Mahdi. 2002: A severe persecution of the al-Hassan movement started in Iraq and Iran. 2007: Ahmed al-Hassan was last seen and photographed in Iraq, after which he went into hiding. 2012:  A faction known as the “White Banners” headquartered in Najaf, Iraq, started publishing, including via Facebook, messages from Ahmed al-Hassan that others regarded as apocryphal. 2015:  Abdullah Hashem proclaimed the appearance of Imam Mahdi and that he was in contact with al-Hassan. He established “the Black Banners of…

GLORIAVALE TIMELINE 1926:  Neville Barclay Cooper was born. 1947:  Cooper, who was twenty-one married his first wife, Gloria, who was fifteen. 1950:  Cooper (later, Hopeful Christian) became an evangelist in Australia. 1967:  Cooper traveled to New Zealand as an evangelist. 1969:  Cooper lead a schism in the New Life Church in Rangiora. 1971:  A Christian school was founded at Springbank farm near Rangiora. 1977:  The Christian Community Church of Springbank founded. 1987:  The Hutterites visited the Springbank church. 1991:  Cooper’s first wife, Gloria, died. 1991:  The community purchased a new site for Gloriavale at Haupiri Valley, on the West Coast. 1993:  Cooper was charged by the police with sexual offenses. 1995:  Sale of the Springbank church was completed. Mid-1990s:  Neville Cooper adopted a religious name, Hopeful Christian. 1995:  Hopeful Christian…

MAGNIFICAT MEAL TIMELINE 1953 (June 17):  Debra Burslem was born in Melbourne. 1973:  Debra Burslem married Gordon Geileskey. 1992 (some date to 1986 or 1990):  The Magnificat Meal Movement (MMM) began in Melbourne. 1993:  The Geileskeys’ real estate business collapsed; they relocated to Toowoomba (Queensland). 1993:  The Magnificat Meal Movement arrived in Toowoomba (Queensland). The group soon moved to nearby Helidon. 1995 (December):  The Geileskeys  moved into “Shrine of Mary” at Mary’s Mount, Helidon. 1996 (February):  MMM families begin relocating to Mary’s Mount. 1996 (May 17):  Bishop Morris wrote to Priests indicating the MMM had no official church approval. 1997:  Debra Geileskey clashed with the Parish Priest at Helidon. 1997 (July 1):  Bishop Morris issued a statement reiterating his earlier letter to priests. 1997 (September 1):  Bishop of Toowoomba, William…

CHRISTIAN EXODUS TIMELINE 1976:  Cory Burnell was born 2004 (March):  Christian Exodus was launched. 2007 (Fall):  Christian Exodus announced that some supporters would resettle in Gem County Idaho. 2007:  Cory Burnell resigned as head of Christian Exodus and was replaced by Keith Humphrey. FOUNDER/GROUP HISTORY Communities of various types founded around religious or spiritual principles have been commonplace through American history. Several of the early colonies were organized around religious principles, and the American landscape has continuously been dotted with self-contained communes. At present, there are numerous religious and spiritual enclaves scattered through the contemporary U.S.: Spiritualism camps; New Age centers; Mormon polygamous and conservative Jewish communities; and Amish and Hutterite settlements. Contemporary organized resettling of populations for a combination of religious and political reasons, as is the case with…