Newcombe, Suzanne

Dr Suzanne Newcombe  

Department

Position held

Non LSE positions held

Open University, London

Associate Lecturer

 

Experience keywords:

Cults; Minority Religions; Modern Yoga; New Religious Movements; Sociology of Religion; Spirituality

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Suzanne Newcombe researches religion in Britain within the disciplines of sociology and social history. She specializes in the study of new and minority religions (particularly those with their roots in Hinduism and Buddhism) and the social history of yoga, Ayurveda and complementary/alternative medicine in Britain. More recently, she has also been researching contemporary prophecy and religious education

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Britain; Europe; India; North America

Media experience:

Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7654

Publications

2014

Newcombe, Suzanne (2014) Cults: history, beliefs, practices In: Muck, Terry C. and Netland, Harold A. and McDermott, Gerald R., (eds.) Handbook of Religion: A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices. Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 568-572. ISBN 9780801037764

Newcombe, Suzanne (2014) The institutionalization of the yoga tradition: ''gurus'' B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain In: Singleton, Mark and Goldberg , Ellen, (eds.) Gurus of Modern Yoga. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 147-167. ISBN 9780199938728

2013

Harvey, Sarah and Newcombe, Suzanne, eds (2013) Prophecy in the new millennium: when prophecies persist Ashgate Inform series on minority religions and spiritual movements . Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK. ISBN 9781409449959

Newcombe, Suzanne (2013) Magic and yoga: the role of subcultures in transcultural Eexchange In: Hauser, Beatrix, (ed.) Yoga Traveling: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective. Transcultural research – Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context. Springer , Heidelberg, Germany, 57-79. ISBN 978331900313

2012

Newcombe, Suzanne (2012) Religious education in the United Kingdom In: Davis, Derek and Miroshnikova, Elena, (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education. Routledge international handbooks of education. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 367-382. ISBN 9780415536301

Newcombe, Suzanne (2012) Global hybrids? 'Eastern traditions' of health and wellness in the West In: Nair-Venugopal , Shanta, (ed.) The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East . Frontiers of globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 202-217. ISBN 9780230302921

2011

Newcombe, Suzanne (2011) Financing of churches and religious societies in England In: Moravcikova, Michaela and Valova, Eleanora, (eds.) Financing of Churches and Religious Societies in the 21st Century. Institute for State-Church Relations, Bratislava, Slovakia, 29-52.

Newcombe, Suzanne and Shterin, Marat (2011) United Kingdom In: Schafer, Danny, (ed.) ReligiöSe Intoleranz und Diskriminierung in Ausgewählten Ländern Europas: Religious Intolerance and Discrimination in Selected E. Religion - Staat - Gesellschaft: journal for the study of beliefs and worldviews, 2 (12/1). LIT Verlag , Munster, Germany, 29-52. ISBN 9783643998941

2010

Harvey, Sarah and Newcombe, Suzanne (2010) Religious prophecies: the next end of the world Sociology Review, 19 (2). 8-11. ISSN 0959-8499

2009

Newcombe, Suzanne (2009) The development of modern yoga: a survey of the field Religion Compass, 3 (6). 986-1002. ISSN 1749-8171

2008

Newcombe, Suzanne (2008) Ayurvedic medicine in Britain and the epistemology of practicing medicine in "good faith" In: Wujastyk, Dagmar and Smith , Frederick M., (eds.) Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. State University of New York Press , Albany, USA, 257-284. ISBN 9780791474891

2007

Newcombe, Suzanne (2007) Stretching for health and well-being: yoga and women in Britain, 1960–1980 Asian Medicine -Tradition and Modernity , 3 (1). 37 - 63 . ISSN 1573-420X

2005

Haselle-Newcombe, Suzanne (2005) Spirituality and ‘mystical religion’ in contemporary society: a case study of British practitioners of the Iyengar method of yoga Journal of Contemporary Religion, 20 (3). 305-322. ISSN 1353-7903

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