Mystics and Messiahs
Subtitle: Cults and New Religions in American History
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: February 21, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195127447
First sentence: In the 1920s, like today, the American media relished a scandal that mixed religion with sexual depravity and crime, and the newspapers found rich pickings in the story of Benjamin Purnell, the head of an odd messianic sect.