Are cults a serious threat? / Katherine Swarts, book editor. - Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007. - 107 p. ; 24 cm. - At issue. Religion .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-97) and index.

Cults are prone to crime and violence / Cults are no more violent than other religious groups / Cults brainwash their members / Mass suicide can be the logical outcome of a cults religious belief / Authorities provoke some cult mass deaths / Cults are corruptions of legitimate religions / Anti-cult laws are a threat to religious freedom / Anti-cult prejudice denies minority religions a fair hearing / Cults foster us-versus-them attitudes / The threat of a cult depends on the observer's worldview / Robert L. Snow -- David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton -- Margaret Thaler Singer -- Dereck Daschke and W. Michael Ashcraft -- William Norman Grigg -- Ron Rhodes -- Moira Shaw -- James R. Lewis -- Arthur J. Deikman -- Eugene V. Gallagher.

ISBN: 0737723580 (lib. : alk. paper) 0737723599 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780737723588 (lib. : alk. paper) 9780737723595 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006022974

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cults.

LC Class. No.: BP603 / .A74 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 209