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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Philip, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cults--United States--History--20th century.

Cults.

United States--Religion--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philip Jenkins looks at how the image of the cult evolved and why panics about such groups occur at certain times. He examines the deep root of cult scares in American history, offering a history and analysis of cults from the 19th century to today.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: Overrun with Messiahs; TWO: False Prophets and Deluded Subjects: The Nineteenth Century; THREE: Anti-Christian Cults?: The Christian Sects, 1890-1930; FOUR: The First New Age; FIVE: Black Gods; SIX: The Cult Racket: Anti-cult Campaigns, 1920-1940; SEVEN: The Purge of the Forties; EIGHT: The New Boom, 1960-1980; NINE: Cult Wars, 1969-1985; TEN: Devil Cults and Doomsday Cults, 1980-2000; ELEVEN: Teeming with Faith; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774020-0

1-280-47202-2

1-4237-6083-2

0-19-802933-0

1-60256-350-0

OCLC:

191038359