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      Paperback Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America Book
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      ISBN: 0137730454

      ISBN13: 9780137730452

      Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America (2nd Edition)

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      The book explores the major new or unconventional religions and spiritual movements in America that exists outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Gives accounts of some 25 groups--divided into six types--covering their history, teaching, worship, and way of life. Considers bitter controversies about cults, brainwashing, and deprogramming that have arisen around them. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      A SHORT, BUT HELPFUL SURVEY OF MANY ALTERNATIVE RELIGIOUS GROUPS

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      This book is a fairly brief (about 300 pgs) survey of various modern religious/spiritual groups originating in America. Many of the groups are labeled as "cults" by the authors, which they define as, "a group offering an alternative to the dominant spiritual tradition, which is small, has authoritative and charismatic leadership, offers powerful subjective experiences which meet personal needs, is separatist, and claims a...

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