| Contents |
A family for the twenty-first century / James D. Chancellor -- Spirit revelation and the Unification Church / James A. Beverley -- Reconstructing reality: conspiracy theories about Jonestown / Rebecca Moore -- Explaining militarization at Waco: the construction and convergence of the warfare narrative / Stuart A. Wright -- Family development and change in the Hare Krishna movement / E. Burke Rochford, Jr. -- When leaders dissolve: considering controversy and stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh movement / Marion S. Goldman -- Soka Gakkai: searching for the mainstream / Robert Kisala -- Aum Shinrikyo and the Aum incident: a critical introduction / Martin Repp -- The Falun Gong: a new religious movement in post-Mao China / David Ownby -- Notes on the Aumist religion / PierLuigi Zocatelli -- Inventing L. Ron Hubbard: on the construction and maintenance of the hagiographic mythology of Scientology's founder / Dorth Reflund Christensen -- The Theosophical Society / James A. Santucci -- The Solar Temple "transits": beyond the millennialist hypothesis / James R. Lewis -- From Atlantis to America: JZ Knight encounters Ramtha / Gail M. Harley -- Heart and soul: a qualitative look at the ethos of the movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness / Diana G. Tumminia -- "Come on up and I will show thee": Heaven's Gate as a postmodern group / George D. Chryssides -- The Raëlian movement: concocting controversy-seeking social legitimacy / Susan Palmer -- White racist religions in the United States: from Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans / Mattias Gardell -- Modern Satanism: dark doctrines and black flames / Jesper Aagaard Petersen. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subjects (Topics) |
Cults.
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| Additional author |
Lewis, James R.
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Petersen, Jesper Aagaard.
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| Bib utility control no. |
53398162 |
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