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Religious cults in America / edited by Robert Emmet Long.

Other author/creatorLong, Robert Emmet.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : H.W. Wilson, ©1994.
Description171 pages ; 19 cm.
Subject(s)
Series The Reference shelf, v. 66, no. 4
Reference shelf ; v. 66, no. 4. ^A22339
Contents pt. 1, David Koresh and the tragedy at Waco. -- Editor's introduction -- The truth about Jamestown / Keith Harrary -- The last revelation from Waco / Ivan Solotaroff -- How David Koresh got all those guns / Gordon Witkin -- A botched mission in Waco, Texas / James Popkin and Jeannye Thornton -- Tripped up by lies / Howard Chua-Eoan -- pt. 2, Assigning blame. -- Editor's introduction -- Eager for the end / James M. Wall -- The Waco blame game / John Taylor -- Reflections after Waco : millennialists and the state / Michael Barkun -- pt. 3, The cult's children. -- Editor's introduction -- Children of a lesser god / Sophfronia Scott Gregory -- Children of the cult / Ginny Carroll and Melinda Beck -- An emotional moonscape / David Gelman -- pt. 4, Cults and controversy -- Editor's introduction -- A brief guide to the major alternative religions / J. Gordon Melton -- The strangers among us / Elizabeth Gleick, et al. -- The great American cult controversy / Elizabeth C. Nordbeck -- Waco revisited / Alexander Cockburn -- The social adaptation of marginal religious movements in America / Charles Harper and Bryan F. LeBeau -- pt. 5, Cults and the media. -- Editor's introduction -- Memories of satanic ritual abuse / Robin D. Perrin and Les Parrott III -- A chicken on every altar? / Bob Cohn and David A. Kaplan -- Sun Myung Moon's American disappointment / Arson Shupe -- Moonskies / Peter Maas.
Local noteLittle-285093--305130039052V
Local noteLittle-285093--305130039052V
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-171).
LCCN 94016329
ISBN0824208552

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Joyner General Stacks BL2525 .R469 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold