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Cults: Meddling with Minds

Not many modern religions can claim the distinction of being denounced by a major European government as "socially harmful ... a potential menace to the...

CULTS: Out of This World

One day last month Robert Rubin, a transplanted New Yorker living in Newport, Ore., signed over the four houses and ten-acre farm he owned to a friend and then...

Religion: The Cargo Cults

Australian patrols venturing into the central highlands of New Guinea just after World War II found that their arrival set off a tremendous religious movement...

Religion: The Quandary of the Cults

Main-line U.S. churches are unsure how to confront them Why has main-line religion been so ineffectual in confronting the bizarre cults that were proliferating...

Cults: The Moribund Kingdom of Ben

Riding a milk-white steed, dazzlingly attired in a white flannel suit and golden necklace with ruby pendant, bewhiskered, 240-lb. Benjamin Purnell cut a...

Cults: A Deity Derepersonifitized

When George Baker first got into the God game back in 1907, the pantheon was packed. What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery...

Religion: California Cults

Big, blue-eyed Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 60, lives in a ten-room Spanish mansion, No. 4440 Braeburn Road. San Diego, Calif. Last week he deeded No...

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