RELIGION IN THE NEWS
Summer 2006, Vol. 9, No. 1

Table of Contents
Summer 2006

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Articles in this issue

From the Editor:
Hold the Prayers

To Print or Not to Print?

Another Melancholy Dane

Raising Hell in Alabama

Mr. Harper Goes to Ottawa

Apostasy in Afghanistan

Religious Politics, Japanese Style

Cult Fighting in Middle Georgia

Contributors

 

 

Contributors to this Issue

Benjamin Dorman conducts research on Japanese religion and the media at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya and is co-editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. dorman@ic.nanzan-u.ac.ip

Dennis R. Hoover is editor of The Brandywine Review of Faith & International Affairs and executive director of the Council on Faith in International Affairs. He is a former resident fellow of the Greenberg Center. dhoover@globalengage.org

Tim Jensen is a professor of religious studies at the University of Odense in Denmark. t.jensen@ifpr.sdu.dk

Susan Palmer teaches in Religious Studies at Dawson College and Concordia University in Montreal Quebec. She is the author of eight books on new religious movements, including Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Millennium, Messiahs and Mayhem (with Tom Robbins), Children in New Religions (with Charlotte Hardman),and Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion. spalmer@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Contributors/Religion in the News Staff

Mark Silk, Editor
Andrew Walsh, Managing Editor
David W. Machacek, Contributing Editor
Christine McCarthy McMorris, Editorial Associate

Editorial Assistants:
Colin Adams
David Stricoff

Jo Lynn Alcorn, Designer

Stephen Alcorn, Illustrator