Book Comment: New Religions

     An extremely interesting book you may wish to check out from your local library is New Religions. A Guide, edited by Christopher Partridge.  This is a knowledgeable guide to the new 

religious philosophies which sprung up in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.  You may never have heard of George Gurdjieff, Anton LaVey, Helena Blavatsky, or Alistair Crowley, but each of them had a profound influence upon the development of Twentieth Century history.  These and many other religious figures are profiled.

Partridge, Christopher, ed., New Religions. A Guide.  New Religions, Movements, Sects, and Alternative Spiritualities (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).