Sociology of Religious Sects

William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style. (any edition). New York: Macmillian, 1979 (or more recent edition). Probably

Campbell, Colin. 1972. “The Cult, the Cultic Milieu and Secularization.” In Michael Hill ( Ed.), A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain. London: SCM Press: 119-136; Reprinted in Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw (Eds.), The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization. Oxford: AltaMira Press (2002): 12-25. (I will provide this one.)

Lucia, Amanda. 2018. “Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86 No. 4 (December): 953-988

Kent, Stephen A. 1994. “Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Founder, David Berg.” Cultic Studies Journal 11 No. 2: 135-188

Lane, Jodi; and Stephen A. Kent. 2008. “Malignant Narcissism. L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology’s Policies of Narcissistic Rage.” English Original of “Politiques de Rage et Narcissisme Malin.” Criminologie 41 No. 2: 117-155; file:///C:/Users/skent/Downloads/Lane-Kent_HubbardsNarcissism_EN_December08-2008.pdf

Raine, Susan. 2005. “Reconceptualising the Human Body: Heaven's Gate and the Quest for Divine Transformation.” Religion, 35 no. 2 (April): 98-117

Joosse, Paul. 2011. “The Presentation of the Charismatic Self in Everyday Life: Reflections on a Canadian New Religious Movement.” Sociology of Religion 0.0: 1-26; doi:10.1093/socrel/ssr045 [about Edmonton’s John de Ruiter]

Raine, Susan. 2021. “RVIM’s Promises, Secrets, and Lies.” International Journal of

Manipulation, Abuse, and Coercion (Forthcoming). (I will provide this one.)

William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style. (any edition). New York: Macmillian, 1979 (or more recent)

Gibaldi, Joseph. 2003. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: The Modern Language Association. [Note: