Sacred Tribes Journal
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Sacred Tribes Journal is an international refereed online journal for the ongoing study of new religious movements. The journal offers descriptive articles on new religious movements as well as articles related to the Christian engagement of these religions from leading Christian academics in the field.
Featuring articles by leading evangelical scholars of new religious movements
About the Journal
What Others Are Saying About Sacred Tribes Journal
FAQs
Guidelines for Contributors
Writing Academic Book Reviews
Resources for Academic Research
Why Sacred Tribes Journal?
Apologetics, Mission & New Religious Movements: A Holistic Approach
The X-Tribe: Some Christian Tribal Markings
Methods and Perspective in Understanding and Reaching Satanists
Spiritual Warfare Profiles of Satanism: Are they Misleading?
Editors' Introduction to Volume 2.1
Contributing Factors in the Resurgence of Paganism in Western Society
Wiccans and Jesus
Musterion: God’s Story and Our Story
Christians and the New Pagans
Neopagan and Wiccan Views of Jesus: A Reformed Christian Assessment
Animals and Morality: Four Views
Editors' Introduction to Volume 2.2
Neo-Paganism: Is Dialogue Possible
A Postmodern Counterculture: Christian Ancestors and Neo-Pagans
The Wheel of the Year
Animals Matter to God
Paganism, New Spirituality, and Christianity: Looking for a Holistic Ecological Ethic
Editor's Introduction to Volume 3.1
The Family International: A Brief Historical and Theological Overview
Research Observations: The Meaning of Life in Contemporary Druidry
Latter Day Saints, Rituals, Pilgrimage and Cultural Symbolics: Neglected Sources for Understanding Engagement
US Religious Landscape: Analysis with Potential Implications for American Religious Identity
STJ Interview with Douglas Cowan
Editor's Introduction to Volume 3.2
Predatory Spirituality: Vampire Religion in America
Kang Jeun San: The Object of Belief in Jeung San Do
D.T. Suzuki and Zen: Re-envisioning Buddhism for the West
Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue - Review
Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue - Review
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t - Review
Twilight - Review
Trinity Consultation on Post-Christendom Spiritualities: Report
Editor's Introduction to Volume 4.1
Sacred Tribes Journal and the Study of New Religions
Burning Man Festival in Alternative Interpretative Analysis
Answering the Evolutionary Understanding of Humans and Nature in Neo-Spiritual Milieu
The Missing Years of Jesus: The Greatest Story Never Told - Review
Special Edition, Volume 4.2 - Introduction to the Peaceable Christian
Resources and Contributors to this Special Edition of Sacred Tribes Journal
Necessity of Worldview Understanding for Sustainable Peace
Psychological Perspectives on Peace: An Evangelical Analysis
Christian Schools: Training God's Soldiers or God's Peacemakers?
Perspectives on a Biblical Theology of Peace
A Philosopher's Reflections on Peacemaking and the Just War Theory
Concluding Response
Editor's Introduction to Volume 5.1
Practicing Religious Conversion: Lessons from Neuroscience
What Mormons Believe About God
Introduction to Apologetics, Mission and New Religious Movements
From the Occult to Western Esotericism
The Kingdom of the Occult - Book Review
Editor's Introduction to Volume 6.1
Introducing Dark Green Religion
Some Notes on Bron Taylor’s Dark Green Religion From an “Environmentalist” Follower of Jesus
Belly-Button Christianity: Tribal Christians Speak to Today’s Church: An Interaction with “Dark Green Religion”
Some Responses to the Bron Taylor Interview
Avatar’s Success: Romantic Narratives of Sacred Places and Dark Green Religion
Origins and More: Cosmos as Divine Temple - Book Review
Editor's Introduction to Volume 7
A Thesis Nailed to the Regensburg Door: Some Questions about Stephen Webb's Challenge to the Great Tradition
Response to Francis Beckwith
God is Somebody to Love
Response to Charles Randall Paul
Mormon-Evangelical Dialogue - Setting the Ground Rules: A Way Forward
Christ's Atonement and the Gospel of Reconciliation: A Discussion of Relational Implications for Evangelicals and Latter-Day Saints
Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition - Book Review
Editor's Introduction to Volume 8.1
Interview with Elmer J. Thiessen
One God to Rule Them All: Religious Exclusivity as a Source of Evangelism and Human Rights Abuse
Thiessen's Response to Abbott
Robinson's Respone to Abbott
The Ethics of Evangelism - Book Review
The Ethics of Apologetics
Call for Articles - Chinese NRMs
Alternative Cultural Events
Burning Man Festival
Church of Scientology
D.T. Suzuki and Zen Buddhism
Igelsia Cristo
Overview of Buddhism
Satanism
The Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Druze
Tibetan Buddhism
Understanding Western Paganism
Wicca
World Plan Executive Council
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John W. Morehead
Michael T. Cooper
Phil Wyman
Sylvie Raquel
Gary Fujino
Amit Bhatia