Steven J. Sutcliffe is Visiting Fellow in Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. He is the co-editor (with Carole Cusack) of The Problem of Invented Religions (2016) and (with Ingvild Gilhus) of New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion (2014), and is the author of Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (2003). He is one of the editors of the series Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies, which publishes theoretically astute, evidence-based monographs and edited volumes on the study of religion.