![]() She is the author of Annie Besant and Progressive Millennialism (1988) and How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate (2000). She is co-director of the Women in the World’s Religions and Spirituality Project, which is part of the World Religions and Spirituality Project online encyclopedia and archive.ĭr. Wessinger is editor of the Women in Religions series at New York University Press. ![]() Wessinger has served as co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions published by University of California Press.ĭr. Her articles in journals and chapters in edited books include history of religions and theoretical treatments of women and religion, millennialism, new religious movements, and religion and violence. Her primary research and teaching areas are women in religions, new religious movements, religion and media, and Tibetan and Indian religions. She is director of the Religion and Media Minor. She is co-director of the Loyola Himalaya Adventure: Summer Study in Dharamsala, India program. ![]() Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans. ![]()
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