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Church members and nontraditional religious groups. Nashville, Tenn: Broadman Press, 1985.

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The new elect: The church and new religious groups. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 1985.

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Ellwood, Robert S. Religious and spiritual groups in modern America. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1988.

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Blind faith: Recognizing and recovering from dysfunctional religious groups. Minneapolis, Minn: CompCare Publishers, 1993.

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Casoni, Dianne. When does a cult become dangerous?: Group philosophy as associated to different types of dangerous behavior. Montréal: Université de Montréal, 2000.

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Singer, Margaret Thaler. Cults in our midst. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.

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Cults, new religious movements, and your family: A guide to ten non-Christian groups out to convert your loved ones. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 1998.

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Vernette, Jean. Dictionnaire des groupes religieux aujourd'hui: Religions, églises, sectes, nouveaux mouvements religieux, mouvements spiritualistes. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995.

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Vernette, Jean. Dictionnaire des groupes religieux aujourd'hui: Religions, églises, sectes, nouveaux mouvements religieux, mouvements spiritualistes. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2001.

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Catholic Church. Catholic Bishops of Uganda. Test the spirits: Pastoral letter of Catholic Bishops of Uganda to the faithful on cults, sects, and "religious" groups. [Kampala?: s.n., 2000.

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Scott, Gini Graham. The magicians: An investigation of a group practicing black magic. San Francisco, CA: New World Books, 1986.

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Singer, Margaret Thaler. Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in our Everyday Lives. San Francisco, USA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995.

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Metcalf, William James. Herrnhut: Australia's first utopian commune. Carlton South, VIC: Melbourne University Press, 2002.

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Gordon, Melton J., ed. Encyclopedia of American religions: A comprehensive study of the major religious groups in the United States. New York, N.Y: Triumph Books, 1991.

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Partin, Harry, and Robert S. Ellwood. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America (2nd Edition). 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1998.

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Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Rothstein, Mikael. Hagiography. Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga Tøllefsen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.29.

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This chapter deals with sacred biographies, hagiographies, and their function in the formation of religious leaders and ritually venerated persons. It is argued that the status of any Master, Teacher, Prophet, guru, Seer and Channel is partly based on sacred biographies, and that the narrative construction of religious authority is crucial to our understanding of leadership in new religions, sects etc. Distinctions are made between doctrinal and popular hagiographies; doctrinal narratives promote the exalted leader according to theologically well-defined standards, while popular narratives cover a wider span, as they seek to draw a picture of the perfected human in many different ways. Counter-hagiographies, finally, serve to deconstruct the ideal person and are typically employed by ex-devotees or members of counter-groups. Hagiographies are seen as very ancient social strategies (there are references to old new religions including early Christianity and the cult of Christ), but also a very lively and important mechanisms in the current make of religious leaders. Examples are derived from Catholic cults of saints, the Mormon Church, Scientology, TM and several other groups.

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Melton, John Gordon. Encyclopedia of American Religions: A Comprehensive Study of the Major Religious Groups in the United States. Triumph Books, 1991.

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Melton, John Gordon. Encyclopedia of American religions: A comprehensive study of the major religious groups in the United States. Triumph Books, 1991.

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Melton, John Gordon. Encyclopedia of American Religions: A Comprehensive Study of the Major Religious Groups in the United States. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1991.

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Melton, John Gordon. Encyclopedia of American Religions: A Comprehensive Study of the Major Religious Groups in the United States. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1991.

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Cowan, Douglas E. New Religious Movements. Edited by John Corrigan. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195170214.003.0008.

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New religious movements (NRMs), which are often popularly and pejoratively labeled “cults,” frequently become the sites for a multitude of conflicting emotions; they are cultural lightning rods as much for anger, shame, and guilt as for joy, excitement, and a sense of release and relief. Throughout NRM narratives, however, whether primary sources or secondary, whether affirmative accounts of one's affiliation and conversion or post-affiliation critiques of the group in question, two principal affective aspects emerge: emotional fulfillment and emotional abuse. As a heuristic framework to consider these more specific aspects of emotion in NRMs, this article uses the trajectory of participation suggested by David Bromley's affiliation-disaffiliation model. In particular, it examines the roles played by emotion and affect in the recruitment processes of different groups, focusing on affective enticement, affective coercion, and affective bonding. It also explores the link between affect and religious practices, the confirmation of religious beliefs, disaffiliation, and post-affiliation.

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Partin, Harry, and Robert S. Ellwood. Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall, 1998.

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Bromley, David G. Categorizing Religious Organizations. Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga Tøllefsen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.1.

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The concepts of church and sect, along with the related terms of denomination and cult, have been central to religious group classification and theorizing about religious group organization by religion scholars. This classificatory system has been particularly problematic for scholars studying new religious movements. The chapter rehearses the origins and development of these concepts and then considers some of the newer and more inclusive relationally-based typologies that address the ongoing critiques of the church-sect model .

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Gordon, Melton J., and Sauer James, eds. The Encyclopedia of American religions, religious creeds.: A compilation of more than 450 creeds, confessions, statements of faith, and summaries of doctrine of religious and spiritual groups in the United States and Canada. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Co., 1994.

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Gordon, Melton J., and Sauer James, eds. The encyclopedia of American religions, religious creeds: A compilation of more than 450 creeds, confessions, statements of faith, and summaries of doctrine of religious and spiritual groups in the United States and Canada. Detroit, Mich: Gale Research Co., 1988.

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Abanes, Richard. Cults, New Religious Movements, and Your Family: A Guide to Ten Non-Christian Groups Out to Convert Your Loved Ones. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2003.

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Griffin, Kevin, Fiorella Giacalone, and Alfonsina Bellio. Local Identities and Transnational Cults Within Europe. CABI, 2018.

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Dean, Roger Allen. Moonies: A Psychological Analysis of the Unification Church (Cults and Nonconventional Religious Groups : a Collection of Outstanding Dissertations). Taylor & Francis, 1992.

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Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Leaders and Followers: A Psychiatric Perspective on Religious Cults (Gap Report (Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry)). Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, 1991.

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Scott, Gini Graham. The Magicians: An Investigation of a Group Practicing BLACK MAGIC. ASJA Press, 2007.

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Jones, Raymond Julius. A Comparative Study Of Religious Cult Behavior Among Negroes With Special Reference To Emotional Group Conditioning Factors. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace. Jossey-Bass, 2003.

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Lewis, James R. Brainwashing and “Cultic Mind Control”. Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga Tøllefsen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.12.

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Unable to comprehend the appeal of New Religious Movements, many observers concluded that the leaders of such groups has discovered a special form of social control which enabled them to recruit their followers in non-ordinary ways, and, more particularly, to short-circuit their rational, questioning minds by keeping them locked in special trance states. A handful of professionals, mostly psychologists and psychiatrists with sentiments for the anti-cult movement, attempted to provide scientific grounding for this notion of cultic brainwashing/mind control, in part by referring back to studies of Korean War POWs who had been ‘brainwashed’ by their captors. This chapter revisits anti-cultism’s implicit ideological assumptions and the empirical studies indicating that conversions to contemporary new religions result from garden-variety sociological and psychological factors rather than from esoteric ‘mind control’ techniques.

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Reader, Ian. 3. More than miracles. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198718222.003.0003.

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While miraculous tales, apparitions, associations with religious leaders, the claimed presence of deities, and striking geographical features may all be important elements in pilgrimage, their presence does not automatically mean that the places where they occur will become flourishing pilgrimage sites. Issues of accessibility and the ways in which various interest groups promote and support the development of pilgrimage cults are also significant factors. ‘More than miracles’ considers the well-known pilgrimage sites at Lourdes, Santiago de Compostela, Shikoku, Mecca, Hardwar, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, and the site of a popular folk deity in Vietnam to learn more about their emergence and to look at how important, practical considerations played a role in their development.

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Nasrallah, Laura Salah. Archaeology and the Letters of Paul. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199699674.001.0001.

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Through case studies of archaeological materials from local contexts, Archaeology and the Letters of Paul illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those whom the apostle Paul addressed. Roman Ephesos, a likely setting for the household of Philemon, provides evidence of the slave trade. An inscription from Galatia seeks to restrain traveling Roman officials, illuminating how the travels of Paul, Cephas, and others may have disrupted communities. At Philippi, a donation list from a Silvanus cult provides evidence of abundant giving amid economic limitations, paralleling practices of local Christ followers. In Corinth, a landscape of grief includes monuments and bones, a context that illumines Corinthian practices of baptism on behalf of the dead and the provocative idea that one could live “as if not” mourning. Rome and the Letter to the Romans are the grounds to investigate ideas of time and race not only in the first century, when we find an Egyptian obelisk inserted as a timepiece into Augustus’s mausoleum complex, but also of Mussolini’s new Rome. Thessalonikē demonstrates how letters, legend, and cult are invented out of a love for Paul, after his death. The book articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains in order to reconstruct the lives of the many adelphoi—brothers and sisters—whom Paul and his co-writers address. It is informed by feminist historiography and gains inspiration from thinkers like Claudia Rankine, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Wendy Brown, and Katie Lofton.

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Metcalf, Bill, and Betty Huf. Herrnhut: Australia's First Utopian Commune. Melbourne University Publishing, 2002.

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Carruthers, Gerard, and Colin Kidd, eds. Literature and Union. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736233.001.0001.

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This volume opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work—both in the Scottish context and more broadly—on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary scholarship. The contributors, who are from all shades of the political spectrum, will interrogate from various angles the assumption of a binary opposition between organic Scottish values and those supposedly imposed by an overbearing imperial England. Viewing Scottish literature as a clash between Scottish and English identities loses sight of the internal Scottish political and religious divisions, which, far more than issues of nationhood and union, were the primary sources of conflict in Scottish culture for most of the period of union, until at least the early twentieth century. The aim of the volume is to reconstruct the story of Scottish literature along lines that are more historically persuasive than those of the prevailing grand narratives in the field. The chapters fall into three groups: (1) those that highlight canonical moments in Scottish literary unionism—John Bull, ‘Rule, Britannia’, Humphry Clinker, Ivanhoe, and England, their England; (2) those that investigate key themes and problems, including the Unions of 1603 and 1707, Scottish Augustanism, the Burns cult, Whig–Presbyterian and sentimental Jacobite literatures; and (3) comparative pieces on European and Anglo-Irish phenomena.

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