Another gospel : cults, alternative religions, and the New Age movement /

Tucker, Ruth, 1945-,

Another gospel : cults, alternative religions, and the New Age movement / Ruth A. Tucker. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, (c)2004. - 462 pages : illistrations, portraits ; 24 cm.



Cults, sects, denominations, world religions : definition of terms -- Historical heresy : unorthodox movements of past centuries -- Mormonism : the legacy of Joseph Smith -- Seventh-day Adventism : eschatological confusion -- Jehovah's Witnesses : a religion of protest -- Christian Science : a denial of the material world -- New Thought and Unity : health and happiness -- The Worldwide Church of God : reinterpreting Israel and the law -- The Way International : denying the deity of Christ -- The Children of God : evangelism and sex perversion -- The Unification Church : proclaiming a new messiah -- Hare Krishnas : transplanted Hinduism -- Bahai : a peace and unity movement out of Islam -- Scientology : mind-altering pseudo-psychology -- The New Age Movement : the occult made respectable.



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Cults--United States.

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