The New Religious Movements Experience in America.(Book review) From: Sociology of Religion | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Berger, Helen A. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Association for the Sociology of Religion. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The New Religious Movements Experience in America by EUGENE V. GALLAGHER. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004, 320 pp.; $55.00 USD (cloth).

Controversies--particularly deaths, confrontations with the police, or questions of sexual misconduct by leaders--have brought new religious movements (NRMs) into public purview as "cults" and portrayed in the media as dangerous and antithetical to American culture. But, as Eugene V. Gallagher demonstrates through historical analy...

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