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According to Véronique Altglas, exotic religions are spiritual groups that are
in tension with mainstream religions and with their host societies. Through
case studies of neo-Hindu Siddha yoga centers and Sivananda yoga centers
in France and England and Kabbalah centers in Brazil, France, England,
and Israel, she implicitly illuminates the rise of religious “nones” in advanced
industrial societies by considering exotic faiths and their participants. Nones
are often bricoleurs drawing from several exotic religions to construct cus-
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Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New
Russia. By Jennifer Utrata. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Pp. xvi1269. $79.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
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