Mystics and Messiahs
Subtitle: Cults and New Religions in American History
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 31, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195145960
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.