TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Philip
TI  - Mystics and messiahs: cults and new religions in American history 
SN  - 0195127447 (alk. paper)
AV  - BL 2525  J52m 2000
U1  - 200.973 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cults
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - BNB
KW  - Culto
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religión
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Overrun with Messiahs --
False prophets and deluded subjects: the nineteenth century --
Anti-Christian cults?: The Christian sects, 1890-1930 --
The first new age --
Black gods --
The cult racket: anticult campaigns, 1920-1940 --
The purge of the forties --
The new boom, 1960-1980 --
Cult wars, 1969-1985 --
Devil cults and doomsday cults, 1980-2000 --
Teeming with faith
N2  - In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults
ER  -