Mystics and Messiahs Cults and New Religions in American History

Name: Mystics and Messiahs Cults and New Religions in American History
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ISBN: 9780195145960

ISBN-10: 0195145968

ISBN-13: 9780195145960

Edition: 2001

Authors: Philip Jenkins

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Are religious fringe movements a recent phenomenon in American history? Are widespread fears of mass suicides, sexual abuse, and brainwashing in cults justified? Do marginalized religious groups play any positive role in American spiritual life? Do the panics over such groups follow any discernible pattern? Phillip Jenkins gives fascinating--and surprising--answers to these and many other questions in Mystics and Messiahs, the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history. Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.79" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Philip Jenkins is professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. His many books include Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Social Crisis.



Acknowledgments



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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