Catherine Wessinger

She earned her Ph.D in History of Religion from the University of Iowa in 1985.^[1]

She is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans where she teaches religious studies with a main research focus on millennialism, new religions, women and religion, and religions of India. Wessinger is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.^[2] She served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during the Montana Freemen standoff^[3] and has been cited for her expertise concerning the Branch Davidians and other apocalyptic groups.^[4] She is the editor of the Women in Religions series at New York University Press and she is co-editor of the Women in the World's Religions and Spirituality Project, part of the World Religions and Spirituality Project.^[2]

• —— (1988). Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism. Edwin Mellen Press.
• ——, ed. (1993). Women's Leadership in Marginal Religions: Explorations Outside the Mainstream. University of Illinois Press.
• ——, ed. (1996). Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream. University of South Carolina Press.
• ——, ed. (2000). Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Syracuse University Press.
• —— (2000). How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate. Seven Bridges Press. ISBN 1-889119-24-5.
• Haldeman, Bonnie (2007). —— (ed.). Memories of the Branch Davidians: Autobiography of David Koresh's Mother. Baylor University Press.
• Martin, Sheila (2009). —— (ed.). When They Were Mine: Memoirs of a Branch Davidian Wife and Mother. Baylor University Press.
• ——, ed. (2011). Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. Oxford University Press.
• Doyle, Clive (2012). ——; Wittmer, Matthew D. (eds.). A Journey to Waco: Autobiography of a Branch Davidian. Rowman & Littlefield.
• —— (2020). Theory of Women in Religions. Women in Religions. New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-0946-2.