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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-17 - Publisher: NYU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
He also analyzes controversial issues such as the accusations of brainwashing and sexual deviance that are sometimes made against cults; discusses why cults som
Language: en
Pages: 278
Pages: 278
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, manag
Language: en
Pages: 480
Pages: 480
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-06 - Publisher: Routledge
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