Mystics and messiahs : cults and new religions in American history /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Cults > United States > History > 20th century.
Cults > United States > History > 19th century.
Cultes > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cultes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > History.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Religious.
Cults
Religion
United States > Religion > 20th century.
États-Unis > Religion > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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