Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

Published on: 2000-04-06
Page Count: 304 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: History
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
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ISBN-13: 9780199923724
ISBN-10: 0199923728
... Alan Watts, “The Trickster Guru,” in The Essential Alan Watts (Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1977), 4–5. 27. J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia Handbook of Cults in America, rev. ed. (New York: Garland, 1992). 28. Finke and Stark, The ...

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