Sacred Suicide
Author
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAshgate New Religions
SubjectSuicide in religion
PublisherAshgate Publishing
Publication date
2014
Pages299
ISBN978-1-4094-5086-3
OCLC889675853
202’.3
LC ClassBL504 .S225 2014

Sacred Suicide is a 2014 edited volume about New Religious Movements. It was edited by James R. Lewis and Carole M. Cusack. Other contributors to the book include Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Mattias Gardell, and Thomas Robbins.

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Contributors to the book include Jan A. Ali, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Henrik Bogdan, Carole M. Cusack, Helen Farley, Mattias Gardell, Lorenz Graitl, Christopher Hartney, James R. Lewis, Rebecca Moore, Lynn S. Neal, Katarina Plank, Thomas Robbins, and John Walliss.

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Sacred Suicide was[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Bernard Doherty criticized the cover of the book as inappropriate[4]

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  1. ^ Soboslai, John (2016). "Review of Sacred Suicide by Carole M. Cusack, James Lewis and George Chryssides". Journal of Religion and Violence. 4 (1): 113–116. doi:10.2307/26671492. ISSN 2159-6808.
  2. ^ Zeller, Benjamin E. (September 2015). "James R.Lewis and Carole M.Cusack, eds: Sacred Suicide. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014; pp. 310". Journal of Religious History. 39 (3): 458–459. doi:10.1111/1467-9809.12290. ISSN 0022-4227.
  3. ^ Lippy, C. H. (2015). "Sacred suicide". Choice Reviews Online. 52 (12): 2035. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.189373. ISSN 0009-4978.
  4. ^ a b Doherty, Bernard (2017). "Sacred Suicide. Edited by James R. Lewis and Carole M. Cusack:". Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review. 8 (1): 155–158. doi:10.5840/asrr2017812. ISSN 1946-0538.
  5. ^ Reader, Ian (November 2016). "Review: Sacred Suicide edited by James R. Lewis and Carole M. Cusack". Nova Religio. 20 (2): 125–128. doi:10.1525/nr.2016.20.2.125. ISSN 1092-6690. JSTOR 26417839.
  6. ^ Pinnock, Sarah K. (January 2018). "Sacred Suicide, James R.Lewis and Carole M.Cusack (eds.), Ashgate, 2014 (ISBN 978‐1‐4094‐5086‐3), x + 299 pp., hb £70". Reviews in Religion & Theology. 25 (1): 97–99. doi:10.1111/rirt.13159. ISSN 1350-7303.