Jeffrey Kaplan - The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization

Mattias Gardell is a researcher with the Center for Migration Studies (CEIFO) at Stockholm University. He is the author of In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (1996) and Gods of Blood (forthcoming).

Massimo Introvigne is Managing Director of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, in Torino, Italy, and the author or coauthor of thirty books in Italian (some translated into French and German) on new religious and magical movements, including the monumental Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia ( Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy, 2001).

Jeffrey Kaplan is an assistant professor of Religion at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and is the author of Encyclopedia of White Power: A Source-book on the Radical Racist Right (2000); Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements From the Far Right to the Children of Noah (1997) and Beyond The Mainstream: The Emergence Of Religious Pluralism In Finland, Estonia And Russia (2000). He is coauthor with Leonard Weinberg of The Emergence of an Euro-American Radical Right (1998) and coeditor with Bron Taylor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (forthcoming). He has published several anthologies as well as a number of articles on the far right and other millenarian movements which have appeared in such journals as Terrorism and Political Violence, Christian Century and Nova Religio.

Lszl Krti is professor of political science and social anthropology at the University of Miskolc, Hungary, and author of two books on east-central European culture, politics and nationalism: The Remote Borderland: Transylvania in the Hungarian Imagination, and Beyond Borders: Remaking Cultural Identities in the New East and Central Europe coedited with Juliet Langman. He is currently secretary of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

Helne Lw has a Ph.D. in history from Gothenburg University. From 1994 to 1997 she was at CEIFO, Stockholm University, and in 1996, she was appointed to the National Council of Crime Prevention in Stockholm, Sweden. She has published two books and numerous articles about national socialism, racism, anti-Semitism, religious and political violence, and women in the radical right. She has contibuted to journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of History, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. She has also contributed to Modern Europe after Fascism 1943-1980, edited by Stein Uglevk Larsen, as well as Nation and Race. The developing Euro-American Racist Subculture edited by Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjrgo.

J. Gordon Melton is the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California and a research specialist with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author more than twenty-five books, including the Encyclopedia of American Religions (sixth edition, 1999) and he is coeditor of the Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices (2002).

Timothy Miller is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. His academic research has focused on alternative religions and communal movements. He has written, coauthored, or edited eight books, including When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements, Americas Alternative Religions, The Hippies and American Values, The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, and The 60s Communes .

Frederick J. Simonelli received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently associate professor of History and chair of the Department of History And Political Science at Mount St. Marys College in Los Angeles. He is the author of American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party.

Bron Taylor is Oshkosh Foundation Professor of Religion, and director of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics, and editor of Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism. He is coediting the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature with Jeffrey Kaplan.

Laird Wilcox is coauthor with John George of Nazis, Communists, Klansmen And Others on the Fringe , an award-winning account of American extremist groups. He is also founder of the Wilcox Collection on Contemporary Political Movements in Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. The Wilcox Collection, founded in 1965, is one of the largest collections of its kind and is regularly used by researchers and scholars. Mr. Wilcox also publishes two annual guides: The Guide To The American Right: Directory and Bibliography, and The Guide To The American Left: Directory and Bibliography.