Steven J Sutcliffe Author & Editor

Carole M. Cusack is Associate Professor in Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. She trained as a medievalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell, 1998). She publishes on contemporary Western alternative religion, medieval religion, and method and theory in the study of religion. She is the author of Invented Religions (Ashgate, 2010) and The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). Steven J. Sutcliffe is Senior Lecturer in the Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He teaches and researches in the areas of New Age religion and holistic spirituality, and in theory and method in the study of religion, including the modern history of the academic study of religion. His doctorate was published as Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (Routledge, 2003). He is co-editor of Beyond New Age: Exploring Alternative Spirituality (2000) and editor of Religion: Empirical Studies (2004).