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Newcombe, Suzanne (2024). Tradition, the Guru, Authorship in the Creation of B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Prāṇāyāma. In: Hankey, Henriette; Jacobson, Knut A. and Keul, István eds. Embodied Reception South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts. The Study of Religion in a Global Context. Sheffield: Equinox (In Press).

Newcombe, Suzanne; Harvey, Sarah; Cooper, Jane; Forrester, Ruby; Banks, Jo and Shah, Shannon (2023). Cults and Online Violent Extremism. Reports; GNET, London.

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Shah, Shanon; Cooper, Jane and Newcombe, Suzanne (2023). Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (Early access).

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Barois, Christèle; Newcombe, Suzanne and Wujastyk, Dagmar (2022). Introduction to The Usman Report (1923): Translations of Regional Submissions. In: Wujastyk, Dagmar and Barois, Christèle eds. Usman Report (1923) – First Translations of Regional Submissions. eJournal of Indian Medicine, Supplement 4, IX-XXXI.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2022). Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga. In: Barker, Eileen and Harvey, Sarah Jane eds. Health and Healing in Minority Religions. Routledge (IN Press).

Harvey, Sarah and Newcombe, Suzanne (2022). An Opportunity for Expanding University-School Connections: Stakeholder Views of the Religion and Worldview Proposal. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion, 24 pp. 61–86.

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Newcombe, Suzanne and Harvey, Sarah (2021). Inform. Censamm, Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements..

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Harvey, Sarah and Newcombe, Suzanne (2021). Gender and Contemporary Millennial Movements. CenSAMM.

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Newcombe, Suzanne and Steidinger, Silke (2021). Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU). CenSAMM.

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Newcombe, Suzanne and O'Brien-Kop, Karen eds. (2021). Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. London: Routledge.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2020). Yoga and meditation as a health intervention. In: Newcombe, Suzanne and O'Brien-Kop, Karen eds. Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Newcombe, Suzanne and Deslippe, Phillip (2020). Anglophone Yoga and Meditation Outside of India. In: Newcombe, Suzanne and O'Brien-Kop, Karen eds. Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. Abingdon: Routledge.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2020). Yoga in Europe. In: Jacobson, Knut and Sardella, Ferdinando eds. Handbook of Hinduism in Europe. Leiden: Brill, pp. 555–587.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2020). Certain Beliefs and Uncertain Evidence – the Case of Shugden. In: Francis, Matthew and Knott, Kim eds. Minority Religions and Uncertainty. Routledge-Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements. Routledge, pp. 22–43.

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O’Brien-Kop, Karen and Newcombe, Suzanne (2020). Reframing Yoga and Meditation Studies. In: Newcombe, Suzanne and O'Brien-Kop, Karen eds. Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 3–12.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2019). Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis. Sheffield: Equinox.

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Newcombe, Suzanne and van Eck Duymaer van Twist, Amanda (2018). "Trust Me, You Can't Trust Them": Stigmatised Knowledge in Cults and Conspiracies. In: Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Robertson, David G. and Asprem, Egil eds. Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion. Leiden: Brill, pp. 152–179.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2018). Spaces of Yoga – Towards a Non-Essentialist Understanding of Yoga. In: Baier, Karl; Maas, Philipp André and Preisendanz, Karin eds. Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Wiener Forum für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft. Göttingen: V&R University Press, pp. 551–573.

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Wujastyk, Dagmar; Newcombe, Suzanne and Barois, Christèle (2017). Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia. History of Science in South Asia, 5(2) i-xvii.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2017). The Revival of Yoga in Contemporary India. In: Barton, John ed. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2017). Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa: The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya. History of Science in South Asia, 5(2) pp. 85–120.

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Newcombe, Suzanne and Ciołkosz, Matylda (2017). Guest Editorial for a Special Issue of Religions of South Asia: Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: traditions, transmissions and transformations. Religions of South Asia, 11(2-3) pp. 117–122.

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Newcombe, Suzanne (2014). Cults: history, beliefs, practices. In: Muck, Terry C.; Netland, Harold A. and McDermott, Gerald R. eds. Handbook of Religion: A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices. Grand Rapids, MI, USA: Baker Academic, pp. 568–572.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2014). The institutionalization of the yoga tradition: ''gurus'' B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain. In: Singleton, Mark and Goldberg, Ellen eds. Gurus of Modern Yoga. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 147–167.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2013). Magic and yoga: the role of subcultures in transcultural exchange. In: Hauser, Beatrix ed. Yoga Traveling: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective. Transcultural research ? Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context. Cham: Springer, pp. 57–79.

Harvey, Sarah and Newcombe, Suzanne eds. (2013). Prophecy in the New Millennium: When Prophecies Persist. Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2012). Religious education in the United Kingdom. In: Davis, Derek and Miroshnikova, Elena eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Religious Education. Routledge International Handbooks of Education. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 367–382.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2012). Global hybrids? 'Eastern traditions' of health and wellness in the West. In: Nair-Venugopal, Shanta ed. The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East. Frontiers of Globalization. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 202–217.

Newcombe, Suzanne and Shterin, Marat (2011). Grossbritannien | United Kingdom. In: Schäfer, Danny and Schwarzer, Corinna eds. Religiöse Intoleranz und Diskriminierung in ausgewählten Ländern Europas - Teil II. Religious Intolerance and Discrimination in selected European Countries - Part II. Religion - Staat - Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift fur Glaubensformen und Weltanscauguungen. Journal for the study of beliefs and worldviews, 2 (12/1). Munster, Germany: LIT Verlag, pp. 29–52.

Harvey, Sarah and Newcombe, Suzanne (2010). Religious prophecies: the next end of the world. Sociology Review, 19(2) pp. 8–11.

Newcombe, Suzanne and Barker, Eileen (2010). Financing of churches and religious societies in England. In: Moravčíková, Michaela and Valová, Eleonóra eds. Financing of Churches and Religious Societies in the 21st Century. Bratislava, Slovakia: Institute for State-Church Relations, pp. 29–52.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2009). The Development of Modern Yoga: A Survey of the Field. Religion Compass, 3(6) pp. 986–1002.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2008). Ayurvedic Medicine in Britain and the Epistemology of Practicing Medicine in "Good Faith". In: Wujastyk, Dagmar and Smith, Frederick M. eds. Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. Health Studies / Asian Studies. Albany, USA: State University of New York Press, pp. 257–284.

Newcombe, Suzanne (2007). Stretching for Health and Well-Being: Yoga and Women in Britain, 1960–1980. Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, 3(1) 37- 63.

Hasselle-Newcombe, Suzanne (2005). Spirituality and 'Mystical Religion' in Contemporary Society: A Case Study of British Practitioners of the Iyengar Method of Yoga. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 20(3) pp. 305–321.