Cyperproceedings from the Salt Lake CESNUR conference

Mainstreaming and Marginalization of Religious Movements

An International Conference organized by
CESNUR and  The J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
in association with ISAR, The Office of Mayor - Salt Lake City Corporation, and The Suitter Axland Foundation.

Salt Lake City, Utah, 11-13 June 2009

CYBERPROCEEDINGS

Papers on Mormonism

• Historical Overview of the Origin of Mormon Polygamy, by H. Michael Marquardt
• Living Among the Mormons: Two Lives in Utah, by Dan Johnson
• Modernity, Postmodernity and Mormonism, by Iain Irving
• New/Old Mormon Family Values: Italian Reactions to Big Love and Twilight, by Massimo Introvigne
• Building an Organization:  Mormon Fundamentalists and the Creation of New Sects, by Christopher James Blythe
• State-Sanctioned Raids and Goverment Violations of Religious Freedom: Revealing Similarities of Constitutional Errors in Both the 1984 Island Pond Raid and the 2008 FLDS Raid, by Jean Swankto
• Comments on the session 'Contemporary Mormon Issues, by Armand L. Mauss

Other Papers

• Popular Metaphysics in the Shaping of American Identity: The (Process) New Thought Movement as a Mainstream or Marginalized Phenomenon, by Philippe Murill
• The Scientology Critic Group Anonymous: A Research Paper, by John Bowen Brown
• Italian Gay and Lesbian Believers: Fissiparous Belonging or Clash of Values? , by Marco Mori
• From 'Cults' to Cultures: Bridges as a Case Study in a New Evangelical Paradigm on New Religions. by John W. Morehead
• The early Christian encounter with Taiwan Religious Culture, by Chi-Rong Chen
• The impact of ultra spiritual theologies on society, by Shirley Paulson
• Marginalizing Religion Through the Courts of Law: A Strange Case in Kazakhstan, by James T. Richardson
• Transcendental Realism and Radical Narrative in Adi Da Samraj's The Orpheum, by Askold Skalsky
• Wiseman
• Accusations Against Baha'is Within the Context of Islamic Heresiography, by Susan Maneck
• The Critical Line throughout the Scriptures—Life as Annotated in the Recovery Version of the Bible, by Shih-Hao Lin
• Portrait of the Heathen/Bible Womanhood: Minnie Mackay, Aboriginal Converts to Christianity and Victorian Female Association, by Jane Lee
• Issues of Religious Freedom Throughout the World - Fifteen years and More: Religious Freedom before the European Court of Human Rights, by Alessandro Amicarelli