This is not an easy task - to be able to figure out a new subject. This dictionary is designed to help you not get lost in religious studies, learn to understand those groups and religious movements that you can hear about today. This dictionary was based on twenty years of teaching experience in the field of religious studies, as well as extensive archival and field work in Africa, North America and Europe. All terms of this dictionary are directly related to the field that sociologists and religious scholars usually call "new religious movements" or NSDs.