num_pages: 297
description: What is a cult? Why do they emerge? Who joins them? And why do tragedies such as Waco and Jonestown occur? This reader brings together the voices of historians, sociologists, and psychologists of religion to address these key questions about new religious movements.
language: English
title: Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader
titlecomplete: Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader (Wiley Blackwell Readings in Religion)
genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology, Religion
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell