In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
Cults--what do we really know about them? Long the focus of controversy, cults or what sociologists prefer to call new religious movements, have been studied by
Religious power assumes many strikingly different forms, which are often regarded as unique, unrelated, and even mutually exclusive. Religion in Context, howeve
What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians,