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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Understandings | |
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| Christian Science | |
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| From Retrospection and Introspection | |
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| From Science and health with Key to the Scriptures | |
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| Theosophy | |
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| From "Why I Became a Theosophist" | |
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| From The Ocean of Theosophy | |
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| UFO Religious Groups | |
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| From Connections: Solving Our Alien Abduction Mystery | |
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| New Selves | |
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| Wicca | |
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| "The Principles of Wiccan Belief" | |
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| From The Wicca Handbook | |
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| From Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner | |
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| Soka Gakkai | |
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| "Human Revolution" | |
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| From The Buddha in Daily Life: An Introduction to the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin | |
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| New Families | |
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| The Unification Church | |
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| "The Purpose of Creation" | |
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| "Blessed Marriage in the Unification Church: Sacramental Ideals and Their Application to Daily Marital Life" | |
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| The Family / Children of God | |
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| From Women in The Family | |
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| From "One Wife" | |
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| From "The Family's Foundation: God's Law of Love" | |
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| From "Responsibilities of the Charter Home: Regarding Children and Parents" | |
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| Santeria | |
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| From The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria | |
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| New Societies | |
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| The Rastafarians | |
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| From The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica | |
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| From The Holy Piby: The Blackman's Bible | |
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| The Nation of Islam | |
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| From Message to the Blackman in America | |
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| From The Autobiography of Malcolm X | |
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| Peoples Temple | |
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| Interview on Ukiah Radio Station, May 10 or 11, 1973 | |
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| Political and Religious Lecture, October 15, 1974 | |
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| Sermon in Philadelphia, 1976 | |
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| The "Death Tape," November 18, 1978 | |
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| Suicide Note | |
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| New Worlds | |
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| The Adventist Tradition | |
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| From Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ about the Year 1843: Exhibited in a Course of Lectures | |
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| From America in Prophecy | |
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| From A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story | |
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| Jehovah's Witnesses | |
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| From Millennial Dawn, vol. 1: The Plan of the Ages | |
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| From Jehovah's Witness Tract Literature: "Life in a Peaceful New World" and "Eternal Happiness-In Heaven or on Earth?" | |
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| From Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life | |
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| The New Millennium: NRMs and the Year 2000 | |
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| From the Heaven's Gate Website | |
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| From "Disappearance of the Spiritual Life of Earth and the Madness of the Human-Devil Realm" | |
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| From Give Me That Online Religion | |
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| Constructing the New Religious Threat: Anticult and Countercult Movements | |
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| Index | |