Table of Contents

Contributors: William Sims Bainbridge, Eileen Barker, Douglas E. Cowan, Lorne L. Dawson, Eugene V. Gallagher, John R. Hall, Massimo Introvigne, Janet Jacobs, J. Gordon Melton, Susan Palmer, Sarah M. Pike, James T. Richardson, Thomas Robbins, E. Burke Rochford Jr., John A. Saliba, Stuart Wright.

About the Author

David G. Bromley is a Professor of Religious Studies in the School of World Studies with an affiliate appointment in the Sociology Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the co-editor (with J. Gordon Melton) of Cults, Religion, and Violence (2002) and the editor of The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements (1998).