Christine Hassenstab is an American woman and ordained Womanpriest who runs a “huskirke” (house church) in Trondheim, Norway. She focuses on social justice issues around the Roma peoples in Norway.

Det norske Hedningsamfunn (Norwegian Hedningsamfunn) is a Norwegian atheist organization which works to remove religious privileges from Norwegian society.

Human-Etisk Forbund (Norwegian Humanist Association) is based in Oslo and works to develop humanism and contribute to ensuring that people may practice their humanist life stance.

Operation Clambake works to discredit the Church of Scientology.

Read a July 23, 2011 Christianity Today article posted by Ed Stetzer about the danger of immediately associating the label “fundamentalist” with terrorism or extremism, as in the case of Norway killer, Anders Behring Breivik.

Read an article about the massacre in Norway in July 2011 by anti-Islamic extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who claimed to be a Christian crusader even as he rejected central Christian beliefs, which highlighted the phenomenon of right-wing violence.

James R. Lewis is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Tromsø and honorary senior research fellow at the University of Wales Lampeter. He edits Brill’s Handbooks on Contemporary Religion series and co-edits Ashgate’s Controversial New Religions series. He is an active, highly published scholar of New Religious Movements. He has written about Sikhism.

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