Mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in American history
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Main Author: Jenkins, Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2000
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index
Overrun with Messiahs -- False prophets and deluded subjects: the nineteenth century -- Anti-Christian cults?: The Christian sects, 1890-1930 -- The first new age -- Black gods -- The cult racket: anticult campaigns, 1920-1940 -- The purge of the forties -- The new boom, 1960-1980 -- Cult wars, 1969-1985 -- Devil cults and doomsday cults, 1980-2000 -- Teeming with faith
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
ISBN:0195127447
1423760832
9780195127447
9780198029335
9781423760832

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