Mystics and messiahs : cults and new religions in American history /
Philip Jenkins.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2000.
- 294 pages ; 24 cm.
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.