Cults in Context
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In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America, cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new r
Cults--what do we really know about them? Long the focus of controversy, cults or what sociologists prefer to call new religious movements, have been studied by
What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians,
Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult. Archaeology has great difficulties in