Kion Ahadi is a sociologist and senior C-suite executive whose career spans leadership roles in lawtech, public policy, regulation, and data innovation. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director at Data Cubed and as a Board and Audit Committee Member at Gateway Housing and has previously served on the Board and Audit Committee of Ravensbourne University London. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His academic research examines reflexive modernity, religious transformation, and the reconfiguration of belief and authority in digitally mediated societies.

• Part I - Rethinking Religion and Modernity: Chapter 1: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2: Classical Theory and the Secularisation Debate Reconsidered.- Chapter 3: From Postmodernism to Reflexive Modernity: Re-theorising Religion.- Part II - Typologies and Social Mapping: Chapter 4: Varieties of New Religious and Spiritual Movements: An Origins–Orientations Typology.- Chapter 5: Why Do People Join New Religious and Spiritual Movements?.- Part III - Authority, Knowledge, and Global Traditions: Chapter 6: Science, Knowledge, and the Legitimation of New Religious Movements.- Chapter 7: Tradition, Discipline, and Global Contexts: ISKCON and Falun Gong.- Part IV - Markets, Myths, and Digital Futures: Chapter 8: Scientology and Capitalism: The Commodification of Enlightenment.- Chapter 9: UFO Religions and Post-Secular Mythologies.- Chapter 10: From Instagram Shamans to AI Oracles: Digital Spiritualities and Algorithmic Faith.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.

Kion Ahadi is a sociologist and senior C-suite executive whose career spans leadership roles in lawtech, public policy, regulation, and data innovation. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director at Data Cubed and as a Board and Audit Committee Member at Gateway Housing and has previously served on the Board and Audit Committee of Ravensbourne University London. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His academic research examines reflexive modernity, religious transformation, and the reconfiguration of belief and authority in digitally mediated societies.

• Part I - Rethinking Religion and Modernity: Chapter 1: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2: Classical Theory and the Secularisation Debate Reconsidered.- Chapter 3: From Postmodernism to Reflexive Modernity: Re-theorising Religion.- Part II - Typologies and Social Mapping: Chapter 4: Varieties of New Religious and Spiritual Movements: An Origins–Orientations Typology.- Chapter 5: Why Do People Join New Religious and Spiritual Movements?.- Part III - Authority, Knowledge, and Global Traditions: Chapter 6: Science, Knowledge, and the Legitimation of New Religious Movements.- Chapter 7: Tradition, Discipline, and Global Contexts: ISKCON and Falun Gong.- Part IV - Markets, Myths, and Digital Futures: Chapter 8: Scientology and Capitalism: The Commodification of Enlightenment.- Chapter 9: UFO Religions and Post-Secular Mythologies.- Chapter 10: From Instagram Shamans to AI Oracles: Digital Spiritualities and Algorithmic Faith.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.