Mystics and Messiahs
Cults and New Religions in American History
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Format: Book
Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Cults -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Religion -- 20th century.
Cults -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Religion -- 20th century.
ISBN:
0195127447
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
RELIGION Jen | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.
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