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In a recent and well-researched book,<ref>Lewis, James R. ''Violence and New Religious Movements''. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 0199735611.</ref> [[James R. Lewis (scholar)|James R. Lewis]] asserts that there is a "dramatic" number of correlations between [[Ananda Marga]] and [[Mark Juergensmeyer|Mark Juergensmeyer's]] "description of [[#Religion|religious]] groups inclined toward terrorism". After considerable analysis, Lewis concludes that it is probably more appropriate to describe the followers of Sarkar as [[#Revolution|''revolutionary'']] rather than ''terrorist''.  As such, Lewis classifies them as "revolutionary sociospiritual [[Utopia|''utopians'']]".