Suzanne Newcombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Newcombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Newcombe |
| SIGNATURE | NEWCOMBE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Informa (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4348-196X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles
This article investigates the esoteric beliefs of the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) as one way of making sense of its politics. By analyzing the ONA’s primary texts and archival data from the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform) we propose that, based on some recurring themes in the way the ONA is presented, it can be analyzed usefully as a new religious movement (NRM) with millenarian tendencies. At the same time, the aura of e…
Exploring India's Bridge Position: Contemporary Globalized Yoga in Fact and Fiction
FLEXIBLE INDIA: YOGA'S CULTURAL AND POLITICAL TENSIONS. By Shameem Black. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. $35 paperback, $140 hardcover. In Flexible India, Shameem Black provides an interdisciplinary exploration of a complex practice with both liberatory as well as violent and oppressive effects. Drawing strongly on her disciplinary background in English, Black's highly readable text alternates between exploring the varied nar…
A Blending of Energies: The Concept of Energy in Contemporary Spirit Mediumship
Energy" is a central concept among spirit mediums in the United Kingdom. This article investigates how energy is understood by spirit mediums and the practices by which energy comes to be experienced and accepted as real. Interviews with forty such mediums revealed a shared understanding of energy that participants used reasonably consistently. We argue that the concept of energy is learned both conceptually, through metaphors, and practically, t…
Hegemonic masculinities and sexual abuse: Two Case Studies
This article discusses male experiences of hegemonic masculinity and abuse within two small, anonymized new religious movements, drawing on primary source material from the educational charity Inform. Both groups created patriarchal, misogynistic cultures in which women were inferior to men and the leaders used teachings to justify restricted gender roles, sexual activity and sexual abuse of women. Both men and women experienced additional abuse,…
Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist
Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. Considering the frequency with which prophecy apparently fails, why do prophecies continue to be made, and what social functions do they serve? This volume give…
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches, edited by Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe
Pool of Life: The Autobiography of a Punjabi Agony Aunt, by Kailash Puri and Eleanor Nesbitt
Pool of Life: The Autobiography of a Punjabi Agony Aunt, by Kailash Puri and Eleanor Nesbitt. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2013. xix + 187 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-1-84519-602-8 (paperback)
Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration
Flying, mind-reading, levitation, astral travel, controlling forces of nature, entering another’s body at will, defying aging and death, killing enemies at a distance—all these and more have been t
The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege
MARION GOLDMAN, 2012 New York & London: New York University xii + 207 pp., US$30.00, £20.99 (hb) ISBN 978–0–8147–3287–8 (hb), ISBN 978–0–8147–3290–8 (eb) This book is primarily about the concept of
Yoga in Modern Society
Yoga in Modern Society VERENA SCHNABELE, 2010 Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac 298 pp., €88.00 (pb) ISBN 978–3–8300–5096–4 The practice of yoga in modern society is ubiquitous—it is a booming business tha
The Development of Modern Yoga: A Survey of the Field
Yoga is now found in urban centres and rural retreats across the world as well as in its historical home in the Indian subcontinent. What is now practiced as yoga across the globe has a long history of transnational intercultural exchange and has been considered by some as an outgrowth of Neo-Hinduism. Although the popularisation of yoga is often cited in theories about 'Easternization' or the 're-enchantment' of the West since the late 20th cent…
Stretching for Health and Well-Being: Yoga and Women in Britain, 1960-1980
In Britain, yoga became an increasingly popular group activity from the 1960s onwards in government-subsidised adult-education evening classes. Although yoga classes were open to everyone, women tended to make up 70 ro 90 per cent of the student base of most classes as well as the majority of yoga teachers. This article briefly outlines how yoga became popular in Britain and then explores yoga's particular appeal to women during this period. Yoga…
Spirituality and ‘Mystical Religion’ in Contemporary Society: A Case Study of British Practitioners of the Iyengar Method of Yoga
This article addresses the under-researched, but very popular activity of yoga in contemporary Britain and attempts a preliminary sociological exploration of the religious and spiritual beliefs of yoga practitioners. A sample of dedicated practitioners of the Iyengar method of yoga was chosen for a case study. It was found that the sample practitioners are engaged in a technique that attracts a significant number of people interested in a type of…
The Practical Limits of Aeroplane Photography for Mapping
THE following report is intended to give data from which one may derive conclusions on the limits of aeroplane photography for mapping. One wants to know: (i) the cost compared with ordinary methods; (2) the limiting scales; (3) what class or nature of country will find the process practicable ; (4) whether the difficulty of uneven ground can be overcome; (5) whether the photograph itself should be reproduced as the map or whether it will be conv…
The Development of Modern Yoga: A Survey of the Field
Yoga is now found in urban centres and rural retreats across the world as well as in its historical home in the Indian subcontinent. What is now practiced as yoga across the globe has a long history of transnational intercultural exchange and has been considered by some as an outgrowth of Neo-Hinduism. Although the popularisation of yoga is often cited in theories about 'Easternization' or the 're-enchantment' of the West since the late 20th cent…
Spirituality and ‘Mystical Religion’ in Contemporary Society: A Case Study of British Practitioners of the Iyengar Method of Yoga
This article addresses the under-researched, but very popular activity of yoga in contemporary Britain and attempts a preliminary sociological exploration of the religious and spiritual beliefs of yoga practitioners. A sample of dedicated practitioners of the Iyengar method of yoga was chosen for a case study. It was found that the sample practitioners are engaged in a technique that attracts a significant number of people interested in a type of…
The Practical Limits of Aeroplane Photography for Mapping
THE following report is intended to give data from which one may derive conclusions on the limits of aeroplane photography for mapping. One wants to know: (i) the cost compared with ordinary methods; (2) the limiting scales; (3) what class or nature of country will find the process practicable ; (4) whether the difficulty of uneven ground can be overcome; (5) whether the photograph itself should be reproduced as the map or whether it will be conv…
Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles
This article investigates the esoteric beliefs of the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) as one way of making sense of its politics. By analyzing the ONA’s primary texts and archival data from the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform) we propose that, based on some recurring themes in the way the ONA is presented, it can be analyzed usefully as a new religious movement (NRM) with millenarian tendencies. At the same time, the aura of e…
Hegemonic masculinities and sexual abuse: Two Case Studies
This article discusses male experiences of hegemonic masculinity and abuse within two small, anonymized new religious movements, drawing on primary source material from the educational charity Inform. Both groups created patriarchal, misogynistic cultures in which women were inferior to men and the leaders used teachings to justify restricted gender roles, sexual activity and sexual abuse of women. Both men and women experienced additional abuse,…
The Practical Limits of Aeroplane Photography for Mapping
THE following report is intended to give data from which one may derive conclusions on the limits of aeroplane photography for mapping. One wants to know: (i) the cost compared with ordinary methods; (2) the limiting scales; (3) what class or nature of country will find the process practicable ; (4) whether the difficulty of uneven ground can be overcome; (5) whether the photograph itself should be reproduced as the map or whether it will be conv…
Spirituality and ‘Mystical Religion’ in Contemporary Society: A Case Study of British Practitioners of the Iyengar Method of Yoga
This article addresses the under-researched, but very popular activity of yoga in contemporary Britain and attempts a preliminary sociological exploration of the religious and spiritual beliefs of yoga practitioners. A sample of dedicated practitioners of the Iyengar method of yoga was chosen for a case study. It was found that the sample practitioners are engaged in a technique that attracts a significant number of people interested in a type of…
Stretching for Health and Well-Being: Yoga and Women in Britain, 1960-1980
In Britain, yoga became an increasingly popular group activity from the 1960s onwards in government-subsidised adult-education evening classes. Although yoga classes were open to everyone, women tended to make up 70 ro 90 per cent of the student base of most classes as well as the majority of yoga teachers. This article briefly outlines how yoga became popular in Britain and then explores yoga's particular appeal to women during this period. Yoga…
The Development of Modern Yoga: A Survey of the Field
Yoga is now found in urban centres and rural retreats across the world as well as in its historical home in the Indian subcontinent. What is now practiced as yoga across the globe has a long history of transnational intercultural exchange and has been considered by some as an outgrowth of Neo-Hinduism. Although the popularisation of yoga is often cited in theories about 'Easternization' or the 're-enchantment' of the West since the late 20th cent…
Yoga in Modern Society
Yoga in Modern Society VERENA SCHNABELE, 2010 Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac 298 pp., €88.00 (pb) ISBN 978–3–8300–5096–4 The practice of yoga in modern society is ubiquitous—it is a booming business tha
The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege
MARION GOLDMAN, 2012 New York & London: New York University xii + 207 pp., US$30.00, £20.99 (hb) ISBN 978–0–8147–3287–8 (hb), ISBN 978–0–8147–3290–8 (eb) This book is primarily about the concept of
Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration
Flying, mind-reading, levitation, astral travel, controlling forces of nature, entering another’s body at will, defying aging and death, killing enemies at a distance—all these and more have been t
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches, edited by Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe
Pool of Life: The Autobiography of a Punjabi Agony Aunt, by Kailash Puri and Eleanor Nesbitt
Pool of Life: The Autobiography of a Punjabi Agony Aunt, by Kailash Puri and Eleanor Nesbitt. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2013. xix + 187 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-1-84519-602-8 (paperback)
Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist
Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. Considering the frequency with which prophecy apparently fails, why do prophecies continue to be made, and what social functions do they serve? This volume give…
Exploring India's Bridge Position: Contemporary Globalized Yoga in Fact and Fiction
FLEXIBLE INDIA: YOGA'S CULTURAL AND POLITICAL TENSIONS. By Shameem Black. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. $35 paperback, $140 hardcover. In Flexible India, Shameem Black provides an interdisciplinary exploration of a complex practice with both liberatory as well as violent and oppressive effects. Drawing strongly on her disciplinary background in English, Black's highly readable text alternates between exploring the varied nar…
A Blending of Energies: The Concept of Energy in Contemporary Spirit Mediumship
Energy" is a central concept among spirit mediums in the United Kingdom. This article investigates how energy is understood by spirit mediums and the practices by which energy comes to be experienced and accepted as real. Interviews with forty such mediums revealed a shared understanding of energy that participants used reasonably consistently. We argue that the concept of energy is learned both conceptually, through metaphors, and practically, t…
Hegemonic masculinities and sexual abuse: Two Case Studies
This article discusses male experiences of hegemonic masculinity and abuse within two small, anonymized new religious movements, drawing on primary source material from the educational charity Inform. Both groups created patriarchal, misogynistic cultures in which women were inferior to men and the leaders used teachings to justify restricted gender roles, sexual activity and sexual abuse of women. Both men and women experienced additional abuse,…
Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles
This article investigates the esoteric beliefs of the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) as one way of making sense of its politics. By analyzing the ONA’s primary texts and archival data from the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform) we propose that, based on some recurring themes in the way the ONA is presented, it can be analyzed usefully as a new religious movement (NRM) with millenarian tendencies. At the same time, the aura of e…
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works)