ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (peer reviewed) from the last five years
A number of articles are available for downloading through Academia.edu
“From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown.” In The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy, ed. Hugh B. Urban and Paul Christopher Johnson, accepted for publication, Routledge.
“A Monumental Problem: Memorializing the Jonestown Dead.” In Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying, ed. Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, pp. 187–208, Berghahn Press, 2021.
“Apocalyptic Groups and Charisma of the Cadre.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma, ed. José Pedro Züqete, pp. 277–287. New York: Routledge, 2021.
“New Religious Movements and Violence.” In Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World, Vol. 2, Jainism to State Violence, ed. Michael Jerryson, pp. 547–632. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020.
“Violence and New Religions.” Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion, January 2020, https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-678.
“Taking Sides: On the (Im)possibility of Participant Observation.” In The Insider–Outsider Debate: New Perspectives in the Study of Religion, ed. George D. Chryssides and Stephen E. Gregg, pp. 151–170. Sheffield, U.K.: Equinox, 2019.
“The Erasure and Reinscription of African Americans from the Jonestown Narrative.” Communal Societies, 38, no. 2 (2018): 161–184.
“Jonestown, Forty Years On.” Nova Religio 22, no. 3 (November 2018): 3–14.
“Godwin’s Law and Jones’ Corollary: The Problem of Using Extremes to Make Predictions.” Nova Religio 22, no. 3 (November 2018): 145–54.
“The Mythmaker: Hyam Maccoby and the Invention of Christianity.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 52, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 381–401.
“From Jonestown to 9/11 and Beyond: Mapping the Contours of Violence and New Religious Movements.” In The Oxford Handbook on New Religions, ed. James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tøllefsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
A number of articles are available for downloading through Academia.edu
“From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown.” In The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy, ed. Hugh B. Urban and Paul Christopher Johnson, accepted for publication, Routledge.
“A Monumental Problem: Memorializing the Jonestown Dead.” In Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying, ed. Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, pp. 187–208, Berghahn Press, 2021.
“Apocalyptic Groups and Charisma of the Cadre.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma, ed. José Pedro Züqete, pp. 277–287. New York: Routledge, 2021.
“New Religious Movements and Violence.” In Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World, Vol. 2, Jainism to State Violence, ed. Michael Jerryson, pp. 547–632. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020.
“Violence and New Religions.” Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion, January 2020, https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-678.
“Taking Sides: On the (Im)possibility of Participant Observation.” In The Insider–Outsider Debate: New Perspectives in the Study of Religion, ed. George D. Chryssides and Stephen E. Gregg, pp. 151–170. Sheffield, U.K.: Equinox, 2019.
“The Erasure and Reinscription of African Americans from the Jonestown Narrative.” Communal Societies, 38, no. 2 (2018): 161–184.
“Jonestown, Forty Years On.” Nova Religio 22, no. 3 (November 2018): 3–14.
“Godwin’s Law and Jones’ Corollary: The Problem of Using Extremes to Make Predictions.” Nova Religio 22, no. 3 (November 2018): 145–54.
“The Mythmaker: Hyam Maccoby and the Invention of Christianity.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 52, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 381–401.
“From Jonestown to 9/11 and Beyond: Mapping the Contours of Violence and New Religious Movements.” In The Oxford Handbook on New Religions, ed. James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tøllefsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.