Mystics and messiahs :
Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
Mystics and messiahs : cults and new religions in American history / Cults and new religions in American history Philip Jenkins. - Oxford University Press pbk. ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Originally published: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-281) and index.
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 domesday cults, 1980-2000 -- Teeming with faith.
0195145968 9780195145960
99028732
Cults--History--United States--19th century.
Cults--History--United States--20th century.
Mystics and messiahs : cults and new religions in American history / Cults and new religions in American history Philip Jenkins. - Oxford University Press pbk. ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Originally published: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-281) and index.
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 domesday cults, 1980-2000 -- Teeming with faith.
0195145968 9780195145960
99028732
Cults--History--United States--19th century.
Cults--History--United States--20th century.
