Phillip C. Lucas is Associate Professor of Religious Studies
at Stetson University and the founding editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of
Alternative and Emergent Religions. The journal is the leading academic
publication in the field of new religions. Lucas is the author of The Odyssey of
a New Religion: The Holy Order of MANS from New Age to Orthodoxy (Indiana
University Press, 1995); Prime Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious
Broadcasting (with J. Gordon Melton and Jon R. Stone, Oryx Press, 1997); and Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community (with John Guthrie, Jr. and
Gary Monroe, University Press of Florida, 2000). He has published numerous
articles in academic journals and edited books on the topic of new religions.
