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International Society for the Study of New Religions

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President
George D. Chryssides

D.Phil
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham and York St John University (UK)

Formerly Head of Religious Studies at the University of Wolverhampton (UK), and is Vice-Chair of Inform (Information Network on Religious Movements), based at King’s College London.

Email: GDChryssides [at] religion21.com

Past President
Prof. dr. Milda Ališauskienė

Department of Political Science
Vytautas Magnus University
Putvinskio str. 23
Kaunas LT-44243

Email: milda.alisauskiene [at] vdu.lt

Vice-president
James T. Richardson

J.D., Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies

Director, Judicial Studies Program
Mail Stop 311, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.

Email: jtr [at] unr.edu

Secretary
Benjamin Zeller

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Religion, Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road, Lake Forest IL 60045, USA.

Email: zellerbe [at] gmail.com

Treasurer
Dr Bernard Doherty

School of Theology
Charles Sturt University
Canberra, Australia
15 Blackall St, Barton ACT 2600

Email: bdoherty [at] csu.edu.au

Members

J. Gordon Melton

Distinguished Professor of American Religious History,
Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, One Bear Place #97236 Waco, TX, USA 76798

Email: jgordon_melton [at] baylor.edu

Jesper Aagard Petersen

Associate Professor, Programme for Teacher Education
Norwegian University for Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

Email: jesper.petersen [at] plu.ntnu.no

Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

Professeur, Etudes nord-américaines
Responsable du Master Interdisciplinaire Religions et Sociétés
Directrice du Centre d’Études Canadiennes Interuniversitaire de Bordeaux, CECIB
Université Bordeaux Montaigne FRANCE.

Email: bcellard [at] numericable.fr


International Journal for the Study of New Religions

Please, visit the section on the IJSNR for the list of Editors and members of the Editorial Board.

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