Handbook of Contemporary Paganism
Biographical note
James R. Lewis, Ph.D. (2003) in Religious Studies, University of Wales Lampeter, is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He has published extensively on New Religions, including (with Daren Kemp) Handbook of New Age (Brill 2007)
Murphy Pizza is a Ph.D Candidate in Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Religions at the University of Wisconsin.
Murphy Pizza is a Ph.D Candidate in Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Religions at the University of Wisconsin.
Readership
Academic libraries, seminaries, and all those interested in Contemporary Paganism, New Religious Movements, comparative religion, as well as theologians, social scientists, and interested practitioners of contemporary Pagan religions.
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