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Title Religious cults in America / edited by Robert Emmet Long.

Imprint New York : H.W. Wilson, 1994.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  291.9 R279    ---  Available
Description 171 p. ; 19 cm.
Series Reference shelf; v. 66, no. 4
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-171).
Contents pt. 1. David Koresh and the tragedy at Waco -- Editor's introduction -- The truth about Jamestown / K. Harrary -- The last revelation from Waco / I. Solotaroff -- How DAvid Koresh got all those guns / G. Witkin -- A botched mission in Waco, Texas / J. Popkin and J. Thornton -- Tripped up by lies / H. Chua-Eoan -- pt. 2. Assigning blame -- Editor's introduction -- Eager for the end / J. M. Wall -- The Waco blame game / J. Taylor -- Reflections after Waco : millennialists and the state / M. Barkun -- pt.3. The cult's children -- Editor's introduction -- Children of a lesser god / S. S. Gregory -- Children of the cult / G. Carroll and M. Beck -- An emotional moonscape / D. Gelman -- pt. 4. Cults and controversy -- Editor's introduction -- A brief guide to the major alternative religions / J. Gordon Melton -- The strangers among us / E. Gleick -- The great American cult / E. C. Nordbeck -- Waco revisited / A. Cockburn -- The social adaptation of marginal religious movements in America / C. Harper and B. F. LeBeau -- pt. 5. Cults and the media -- Editor's introduction -- Memories of satanic ritual abuse / R. D. Perrin and L. Parrott III -- A chicken on every altar? / B Cohn and D. A. Kaplan -- Sun Myung Moon's American disappointment / A. Shupe.
Subject Branch Davidians.
Cults
Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993.
Added Author Long, Robert Emmet.
ISBN 0824208552

 
    
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