Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson
PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson
Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III
Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-François Mayer
Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg
Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin
PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL
Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins
Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne
Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine
Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton
Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill
PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT
What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond
Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet
Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie
Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire
Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark
PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS
Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann
Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies
Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn.