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From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven's Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as... read more

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We tend to think of cults as anomalies, as if alien forces had swept their members-people who once seemed normal-into a netherworld beyond reason or understanding.

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  1. Marc Galanter (Author)
 

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