Mystics and Messiahs

Mystics and Messiahs
Author: Philip Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195127447

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In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.


Mystics and Messiahs
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Philip Jenkins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mains
Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Lorne Dawson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-06-09 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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,
The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions
Language: en
Pages: 951
Authors: James R. Lewis
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03 - Publisher: Prometheus Books

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Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging
Encyclopedia of New Religions
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Christopher Hugh Partridge
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Lion Books

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A comprehensive and authoritative guide to over 200 new religions, sects and alternative spiritualities
Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions
Language: en
Pages: 802
Authors: John Ankerberg
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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"Brief synopses of more than 30 influential groups, including the Integral Yoga Institute, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Human Potential movement, are also covered.