Cults, Enthusiasts
03 Oct 1994 12:00A cult is a socially marginal religious movement. Successful cults move up to being denominations or, if embedded in larger religions, orthodox.
See also: Conspiracy Theories, Millenarianism, Shamamism, Superstition
- To read:
- Appel, Cults in America
- Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain [snake-handling, speaking in tongues, etc.]
- Harvey Cox, Fire From Heaven [Pentecostalism]
- Michael Cueno, The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism [Long review by Garry Wills]
- Galanter, Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion
- John Hall, Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Culture
- John R. Hall, Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan
- Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Low (eds.), The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization
- R. Knox, Enthusiasm
- I. M. Lewis, Religion in Context: Cults and Charisma
