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  1. Who Believed There Was A Bomb and When Did They Believe It? What Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock Says About Belief and Moral Panic

    Article • Bulletin for the Study of Religion, November 2015, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  2. Religion, Law, and Society

    Article • Journal of Church and State, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  3. the controversial history of the crystal skulls: a case study in interpretive drift

    Article • Material Religion, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  4. The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken & the Struggle to Define Catholicism by Joseph P. Laycock

    Article • American Catholic Studies, January 2015, Project Muse

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  5. The Seer of Bayside

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  6. After Veronica

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  7. Who Speaks for Mary?

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  8. Making Sense of the Anomalous

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  9. The Battle of Bayside

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  10. Baysiders as Homo Faber

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  11. The Consequences of Growth

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  12. Religious History as a Dance of Deference and Defiance

    Article • December 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  13. Is Nessie a Naga?: Buddhism in the West and Emerging Strategies of Importation

    Article • Bulletin for the Study of Religion, October 2014, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  14. Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  15. Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search For Ong's Hat. By Michael Kinsella. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Pp. xii + 211. $55.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  16. Approaching the Paranormal

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, August 2014, University of California Press

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  17. Zen meets New Thought: The Erhard Seminars Training and Changing Ideas About Zen

    Article • Contemporary Buddhism, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  18. “Our Secret in Plain Sight”: Recent Scholarly Approaches to Paranormal Belief

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  19. Book review: Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives and Digital Cultures, written by Danielle Kirby

    Article • Numen, March 2014, Brill

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  20. Laughing Matters: "Parody Religions" and the Command to Compare

    Article • Bulletin for the Study of Religion, June 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  21. Real Vampires as an Identity Group: Analyzing Causes and Effects of an Introspective Survey by the Vampire . Community

    Article • January 2012, Brill

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  22. Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism as Politics, Politics as Exorcism

    Article • Implicit Religion, October 2011, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  23. Paranormal Belief: A New Frontier?

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, August 2011, University of California Press

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  24. Conversion by Infection: The Sociophobic of Cults in The Omega Man

    Article • International Journal for the Study of New Religions, January 2011, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  25. Real Vampires as an Identity Group: Analyzing Causes and Effects of an Introspective Survey by the Vampire Community

    Article • Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, August 2010, University of California Press

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  26. Myth Sells: Mattel’s Commission of The Masters of the Universe Bible

    Article • Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, May 2010, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  27. God's Last, Best Gift to Mankind: Gnostic Science and the Eschaton in the Vision of John Murray Spear Le dernier, le meilleur, cadeau à l'humanité: Science Gnostique et Eschaton dans la vision de John Murray Spear

    Article • Aries, January 2010, Brill

    Dr Joseph P Laycock

  28. Mothman: Monster, Disaster, and Community

    Article • Fieldwork in Religion, July 2009, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Joseph P Laycock