Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.114
Matthew S. Bowman
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This article explores the short life of the Ballarat Spiritualist Fellowship and the Spiritualist history of its founder, Lorraine Culross (b. 1952), to offer both a “wide-angle” and “up-close” account of Australian Spiritualism and the fortunes of its churches, especially in the postwar era. Spiritualism first came to Australia in the nineteenth century, in the form of public lectures, stage demonstrations, and private séances. A church movement quickly appeared, and dozens of congregations opened in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Today, only a handful of these “legacy” churches still run, fortunate to own a dedicated building. Beyond that, many other tiny churches, like the Ballarat Spiritualist Fellowship, have come and gone across many decades. These churches could open easily because of the commitment of enthusiastic Spiritualists, an absence of a rigid ecclesiastical hierarchy, and charismatic forms of social organization. However, as the case of Ballarat shows, these same characteristics mean that most churches have a precarious existence. This mutability characterizes Spiritualism’s story as one of Australia’s longest lasting and most durable alternative spiritual movements. Australian Spiritualism has evolved, changed, and survives, despite the travails of many church closures.
{"title":"A Little Outpost","authors":"A. Singleton","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.70","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the short life of the Ballarat Spiritualist Fellowship and the Spiritualist history of its founder, Lorraine Culross (b. 1952), to offer both a “wide-angle” and “up-close” account of Australian Spiritualism and the fortunes of its churches, especially in the postwar era. Spiritualism first came to Australia in the nineteenth century, in the form of public lectures, stage demonstrations, and private séances. A church movement quickly appeared, and dozens of congregations opened in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Today, only a handful of these “legacy” churches still run, fortunate to own a dedicated building. Beyond that, many other tiny churches, like the Ballarat Spiritualist Fellowship, have come and gone across many decades. These churches could open easily because of the commitment of enthusiastic Spiritualists, an absence of a rigid ecclesiastical hierarchy, and charismatic forms of social organization. However, as the case of Ballarat shows, these same characteristics mean that most churches have a precarious existence. This mutability characterizes Spiritualism’s story as one of Australia’s longest lasting and most durable alternative spiritual movements. Australian Spiritualism has evolved, changed, and survives, despite the travails of many church closures.","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43140148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aleister Crowley is one of the most famous esotericists of the twentieth century. His religion, Thelema, is still practiced today. His acolytes, however, have not been given equal or equitable historical representation. When they are included, they are generally secondary—regarded as followers of Crowley, rather than of Crowley’s religion. This article argues that acolytes were more important in the development and organization of Thelema than they have been portrayed. Through the story of Hollywood actress turned Thelemite Jane Wolfe, based on her diaries written at Cefalù, Italy, Crowley is shown to be dreamy and distracted, while Wolfe was focused and expressed agency within the structure of Crowley’s religion. Wolfe’s discipleship provides a new and different lens through which to study Thelema, and demonstrates that Thelema can and does exist separately from Crowley.
{"title":"Moving Past Crowleyism","authors":"Ian S. Wilson","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.83","url":null,"abstract":"Aleister Crowley is one of the most famous esotericists of the twentieth century. His religion, Thelema, is still practiced today. His acolytes, however, have not been given equal or equitable historical representation. When they are included, they are generally secondary—regarded as followers of Crowley, rather than of Crowley’s religion. This article argues that acolytes were more important in the development and organization of Thelema than they have been portrayed. Through the story of Hollywood actress turned Thelemite Jane Wolfe, based on her diaries written at Cefalù, Italy, Crowley is shown to be dreamy and distracted, while Wolfe was focused and expressed agency within the structure of Crowley’s religion. Wolfe’s discipleship provides a new and different lens through which to study Thelema, and demonstrates that Thelema can and does exist separately from Crowley.","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46527850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.138
E. Barker
{"title":"James Arthur Beckford","authors":"E. Barker","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49281287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New religious movements in modern western culture often emphasize experience at the expense of reason; for that reason, some scholars have described their teachings as “flights from reason.” This description has been rightly criticized. Nevertheless, it is not entirely wrong. Many founders of new religious movements do claim immediate insight into a (divine) reality that transcends the intellect. And yet, they and their followers often spend much of their lives building an intellectual frame around this anti-intellectual claim. Why did such paradoxical “reasoned flights beyond reason” emerge? Based on the life and teachings of Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887–1985) and his Assembly of Man, the intellectualization of anti-intellectual claims by founders and followers of new religious movements in twentieth-century North America can be partly explained by three sociohistorical developments: (1) increasing access to an academic education, (2) increasing demand for a reflexive spirituality, and (3) increasing competition between eastern and western esoteric movements that answered this call for a reflexive spirituality.
现代西方文化中的新宗教运动往往以牺牲理性为代价来强调经验;出于这个原因，一些学者将他们的教导描述为“脱离理性”。这种描述受到了正确的批评。然而，这并非完全错误。许多新宗教运动的创始人确实声称对超越智力的(神圣的)现实有直接的洞察力。然而，他们和他们的追随者经常花大量时间围绕这种反知识分子的主张建立一个知识框架。为什么会出现这种矛盾的“理性超越理性”?根据富兰克林·梅雷尔-沃尔夫(Franklin Merrell-Wolff, 1887-1985)和他的《人的集会》(Assembly of Man)的生平和教义，二十世纪北美新宗教运动的创始人和追随者将反知识分子的主张理智化，可以用三个社会历史发展来部分解释:(1)获得学术教育的机会越来越多;(2)对反思灵性的需求越来越大;(3)响应这种对反思灵性的呼唤的东西方深奥运动之间的竞争越来越激烈。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.102
Kristian Klippenstein
{"title":"Review: The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate, edited by Michael Stausberg, Stuart A. Wright, and Carole M. Cusack","authors":"Kristian Klippenstein","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43247452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.141
Kevin J. Christiano, B. Denison, P. Kivisto
{"title":"William H. Swatos, Jr.","authors":"Kevin J. Christiano, B. Denison, P. Kivisto","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48830443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.143
{"title":"Association for the Academic Study of New Religions","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41782657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.122
Dell deChant
{"title":"Review: Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue, by Sarah McFarland Taylor","authors":"Dell deChant","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45341586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.115
Martha Evans Bradley
{"title":"Review: Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, by Taylor G. Petrey","authors":"Martha Evans Bradley","doi":"10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.1.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44149,"journal":{"name":"Nova Religio-Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42230721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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