CESNUR - Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni diretto da Massimo Introvigne
www.cesnur.org

The 2009 International 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

• New/Old Mormon Family Values: Italian Reactions to Big Love and Twilight, by Massimo Introvigne
• Issues of Religious Freedom Throughout the World - Fifteen years and More: Religious Freedom before the European Court of Human Rights, by Alessandro Amicarelli
• Accusations Against Baha'is Within the Context of Islamic Heresiography, by Susan Maneck
• The Scientology Critic Group Anonymous: A Research Paper, by John Bowen Brown
• Building an Organization:  Mormon Fundamentalists and the Creation of New Sects, by Christopher James Blythe
• The Critical Line throughout the Scriptures—Life as Annotated in the Recovery Version of the Bible, by Shih-Hao Lin
• Italian Gay and Lesbian Believers: Fissiparous Belonging or Clash of Values? , by Marco Mori
• Popular Metaphysics in the Shaping of American Identity: The (Process) New Thought Movement as a Mainstream or Marginalized Phenomenon, by Philippe Murillo
• Modernity, Postmodernity and Mormonism, by Iain Irving
• 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
• Living Among the Mormons: Two Lives in Utah, by Dan Johnson
• Transcendental Realism and Radical Narrative in Adi Da Samraj’s The Orpheum, by Askold Skalsky
• 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 Wiseman
• Comments on the session ‘Contemporary Mormon Issues, by Armand L. Mauss
• Portrait of the Heathen/Bible Womanhood: Minnie Mackay, Aboriginal Converts to Christianity and Victorian Female Association, by Jane Lee
• Historical Overview of the Origin of Mormon Polygamy, by H. Michael Marquardt
• Remarks on the 2008 FLDS Raid, by Cardell K. Jacobson
• Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign: Confronting the Mormon Question, by Craig L. Foster
• Marginalizing Heterosexual Monogamous Marriage--The Cultural and Legal Assault on the Christian Ideal, by Jane Williams-Hogan
• Reclaiming the “Temple Lot” in the “Center Place” of Zion, by R. Jean Addams
• The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and Their Quest to Build a Temple in Zion, by R. Jean Addams
• In the Mists of Avalon: How Contemporary Paganism Dodges the ‘Crisis of History’, by Chas S. Clifton
• Avataric Revelation and the Restoration Of Spiritual Culture: on the Life, Work, and Passing of Adi Da Samraj and the Preservation of his Spiritual Legacy, by Michael (Anthony) Costabile
• The Rebirth of Sacred Art: Reflections on the Aperspectival Geometric Art of Adi Da Samraj, by Gary J. Coates
• Adidam, Controversy, and Former Members, by James R. Lewis
• George Leslie Mackay, Miscegenation, and Mormonism: Having the Courage or Lack Thereof to Cross the Color Line for Christ?, by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.
• Media and New Religious Movements: The Case of Falun Gong, by Leeshai Lemish
• “The Servants of God Will Come Forth to Slay the Wicked”:  Apples and Oranges—What Was Different about Violence in the Mormon West?, by Will Bagley
• Mainstreaming and Marginalization in the Legal Context - Legislation on the religious associations in the Baltic States, by Ringo Ringvee
• To Die as a Rosycros: A Panacea?, by Sébastien Gregov
• Religion and Spirituality Among Chinese Immigrants in Turin, by PierLuigi Zoccatelli

Selected Media Coverage

• CESNUR 2009 in Salt Lake City: An Interview with Massimo Introvigne, by Peggy Fletcher Stack (Salt Lake Tribune, June 5, 2009)
• International conference: Group gathers to study new religious movements, by Peggy Fletcher Stack (Salt Lake Tribune, June 6, 2009)
• Conference looking at marginalization of religionsm, by Jerry Johnston (Deseret News, 12 June 2009)
• Group studying new religions gathers in Salt Lake, by Carole Mikita (KSL, 12 June 2009)