of their members to apartheid. This ground-breaking work resulted in an International Conference held at the University of Calgary in 1993 on the topic of Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture, which led to the publication of a book with the same title. Poewe's fieldwork in South Africa came to an end in 1989 when a close friend, the Rt. Rev. Londa Shembe, leader of one branch of the Zulu African Independent Church amaNazaretha, was assassinated and two other friends were also murdered. These tragedies led Poewe to redirect her research interests to looking at the role of missionaries in the areas of Africa where she had studied. The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled her to freely access the archives of the Berlin Mission Society. While working in these archives in 1995 she discovered a large amount of material dealing with conflicts between members of the Berlin Mission and National Socialists. This material provided the basis for a new project concerning the role of religions in the rise of National Socialism which took almost ten years to complete and resulted in her latest book, New Religions and the Nazis (2006). Currently Poewe is studying the treatment of German refugees following the end of World War II and is interested in the impact of defeat on the defeated. Works Matrilineal Ideology: Male Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia. London: Academic Press. 1981. (under pseudonym Manda Cesara) Reflections of a Woman Anthropologist: No Hiding Place. London & New York: Academic Press. 1982. The Namibian Herero: A History of Their Psychosocial Disintegration and Survival. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 1985. (with Irving Hexham) Understanding Cults and New Religions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1986. Childhood in Germany during World War II: The Story of a Little Girl. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 1988. Religion, Kinship, and Economy in Luapula, Zambia. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 1989. Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1994. (with Irving Hexham) New Religions as Global Cultures: Making the Human Sacred. Boulder: Westview Press. 1997. New Religions and the Nazis, Oxford, Routledge. 2006. Selected academic papers by Karla Poewe "Religion, Matriliny and Change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh‑Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia", in: American Ethnologist (Washington), Vol. 5, No. 2 May 1978, pp. 301‑321. "Matriliny and Capitalism: the Development of Incipient Classes in Luapula, Zambia", in: Dialectical Anthropology (Amsterdam), 1978, Vol. 3,