Penn Press is pleased to announce that a new special issue of the journal Nova Religio is now available. This timely publication, free to read through the end of November, foregrounds questions of religion and politics with particular attention given to voting trends in the upcoming United States presidential election. The issue examines an independent network of self-described prophets and apostles known as the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and how their dominion theology is implicated in the events of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. One of the hallmarks of NAR’s dominionist theology is the formulation of politics as another venue for spiritual warfare. Damon Berry, Religious Studies Associate Professor at St. Lawrence University and special issue editor, calls for the continued study of oppositional cultures like NAR even beyond the 2024 election. Alongside the special issue’s contributors, Berry insists that the staying power of religious networks like NAR demands further examination of how theological and political discourse adapt to shifting political events. Berry’s introduction to the issue, “Dominion and Rebellion: The New Apostolic Reformation and the January 6, 2021 Insurrection,” is available now.
Since 1997, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions has presented scholarly interpretations and examinations of emergent and alternative religious movements. Original research, perspectives on the study of new religions, reviews, and publication notes keep scholars well informed on a wide range of topics including: new religions; new movements within established religious traditions; neo-indigenous, neo-polytheistic and revival movements; ancient wisdom and New Age groups; diasporic religious movements; and marginalized and stigmatized religions. Nova Religio is the official journal of the Association for the Academic Study of New Religions, Inc. (AASNR).
