Bibliographical Recommendations

New Religious Movements

Burning Man Festival as Life-Enhancing, Post-Christendom 'Middle Way', by John Morehead (Western Institute for Intercultural Studies, 2008).

Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach, by Irving Hexham, Stephen Rost, and John W. Morehead II, eds. (Kregel Academic, 2004).

New Religions as Global Cultures, by Karla Poewe and Irving Hexham (Westview Press, 1997).

Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements (Pocket Dictionary), by Irving Hexham (InterVarsity Press, 2002).

Exploring New Religions, by George D. Chryssides (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999).

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History, by Philip Jenkins (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious Movements, 2d ed. by Lorne L. Dawson (Oxford University Press, 2006).

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)

Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor: A Quick Guide for Relating to Latter-day Saints, by Ross Anderson (Zondervan, 2011).

Man of Holiness: The Mormon Search for a Personal God, by John L. Bracht (Sacred Tribes Press, 2010).

An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, by Grant H. Palmer (Signature Books, 2002).

Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling (HarperCollins, 2000).

An Introduction to Mormonism, by Douglas J. Davies (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

I Love Mormons: A New Way to Share Christ with Latter-day Saints, by David L. Rowe (Baker Books, 2005).

Speaking the Truth in Love to Mormons, 2nd rev. ed. by Mark Cares (Wels Outreach Resources, 1998).

Claiming Christ: A Mormon-Evangelical Debate, by Robert L. Millet and Gerald R. McDermott (Brazos Press, 2007).

Man of Holiness: Mormon Claims for a Personal God, by John Bracht (Western Institute for Intercultural Studies, 2008).

The New Spirituality and Paganism 

Beyond the Burning Times, by Philip Johnson and Gus DiZerega, John W. Morehead editor (Lion, forthcoming 2008).

Jesus and the Gods of the New Age, by Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson (Victor, 2003).

Christianity in Western Culture

Faith in a Changing Culture, by John Drane (Zondervan, 1997).

Do Christians Know How to Be Spiritual?, by John Drane (Darton, Longman & Todd, 2005).

Religious Literacy

Perspectives on Post-Christendom Spiritualities: Reflections on New Religious Movements and Western Spiritualities, Edited by Michael T. Cooper (Sacred Tribes Press, 2010).

Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t, by Stephen Prothero (HarperOne, 2008).

World Religions

World Religions Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions, by Winfried Corduan (InterVarsity Press, 1998).

The Baker Pocket Guide to World Religions: What Every Christian Needs to Know, by Gerald R. McDermott (Baker Books, 2008).

Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions: Jesus, Revelation & Religion, by Gerald McDermott (InterVarsity Press, 2000).

Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century, by Terry Muck and Frances Adeny (Baker Academic, 2009).

Apologetics

Apologetics, Mission and New Religious Movements: A Holistic Approach, by Philip Johnson (Sacred Tribes Press, 2010).

Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today, by John G. Stackhouse (Oxford University Press, 2006).

A History of Apologetics, 2nd ed. by Avery Dulles (Ignatius Press, 2005).

Intercultural Studies and Mission

Cultural Intelligence: Improving CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World, by David A. Livermore (Baker Academic, 2009).

The Art of Crossing Cultures, 2nd ed. by Craig Storti (Intercultural Press, 2007).

Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally, 2nd ed. by David J. Hesselgrave (Zondervan, 1991).

The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again, by George G. Hunter III (Abingdon Press, 2000).

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture, by Lesslie Newbigin (Eerdmans, 1986).

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, by Lesslie Newbigin (Eerdmans, 1989).

New Wine Into Fresh Wineskins: Contextualizing the Early Christian Confessions, by Richard N. Longenecker (Hendrickson Publishers, 1999).

Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission, by Dean Flemming (InterVarsity Press, 2005).

The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, by Christopher J. H. Wright (IVP Academic, 2006).

 

 

Lausanne issue group on postmodern and alternative spirituality issue paper

"...new religions and alternative spiritualities should not be dismissed as superficial froth or the dying embers of religion in the West, but are rather the sparks of a new and increasingly influential way of being religious..." -- Christopher Partridge

The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of the West: The Religio-Cultural Context of Contemporary Western Christianity

By Christopher Partridge

Unknown gods, declining churches, and the spiritual search of contemporary culture

By John Drane (With thanks to the Henry Martyn Centre for permission to use) 

New Religions, Subjective-Life Spiritualities, and the Challenge to Missions in the Post-Christian West 

By John W. Morehead 

A Fresh Agenda for Apologetics in the 21st Century

By John W. Morehead

Ministry to Alternative Spiritualities in Religiously Plural America: Moving Beyond Confronting Cults

Occasional Bulletin, Fall 2003, Evangelical Missiological Society

By John W. Morehead

Can You Hear Me Now? Insights from Communications and Missions for New Religions

By John W. Morehead

Transforming Evangelical Responses to New Religions: Missions and Counter-Cult in Partnership

By John W. Morehead

From Cults to Cultures: Bridges as a Case Study in a New Evangelical Paradigm on New Religions CESNUR Conference Paper

By John W. Morehead