Title Mystics and messiahs : cults and new religions in American history / Philip Jenkins.

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Description	1 online resource (294 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.
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Subject	Cults -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Cults.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	United States -- Religion -- 20th century.
	Religion.
	Cults -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Jenkins, Philip, 1952- Mystics and messiahs. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195127447 (DLC) 99028732 (OCoLC)41231449
ISBN	1423760832 (electronic book)
	9781423760832 (electronic book)
	1280472022
	9781280472022
	1602563500
	9781602563506
	0195127447 (Cloth)
	9780195127447
	9780198029335