Timothy Miller 
America’s Alternative Religions [PDF ebook] 

Introduction

Timothy Miller

Part I.   Established Christian Alternatives

1   The Anabaptists

Donald F. Durnbaugh

2   Symbol and Sign in Methodist Holiness and Pentecostal Spirituality

Charles Edwin Jones

3   The Adventist and Jehovah’s Witness Branch of Protestantism

Jerry Bergman

4   The Latter Day Saint Churches

Steven L. Shields

5   Christian Science and American Culture

John K. Simmons

6   On the Verge: The Evolution of American Quakerism

Margaret Hope Bacon

7   Swedenborgianism

Eugene Taylor

8   Unitarian Universalism: An Interpretation Through Its History

Mason Olds

Part II.   Contemporary Christian and Jewish Movements

9   Roman Catholic Traditionalism

William Dinges

10   Hasidism and Its Effects on Alternative Jewish Movements in America

S. Daniel Breslauer

11   God and Race: British-Israelism and Christian Identity

William L. Ingram

12   The Children of God

David E. Van Zandt

13   The Boston Church of Christ

Russell Paden

14   From Holy Order of MANS to Christ the Savior Brotherhood: The Radical Transformation of an Esoteric Christian Order

Phillip Lucas

15   The Branch Davidians: A Social Profile and Organizational History

David G. Bromley and Edward D. Silver

Part III.   Religions from Asia

16   Buddhism in America: The Dharma in the Land of the Red Man

Jane Hurst

17   Hinduism Arrives in America: The Vedanta Movement and the Self-Realization Fellowship

Catherine Wessinger

18   Hindu Movements Since Mid-Century: Yogis in the States

Gene R. Thursby

19   Hare Krishna in America: Growth, Decline, and Accommodation

E. Burke Rochford, Jr.

20   The Unification Church

Eileen Barker

Part IV.   Religions from the Middle East

21   Expressions of Islam in America

Gisela Webb 

22   The American Bahá’í Community in the Nineties

Robert H. Stockman

23   Sufism in America

Gisela Webb

24   Gurdjieff in America: An Overview

George Baker and Walter Driscoll

25   Subud

Gisela Webb

Part V.   African-American Freedom Movements

26   Black Jews and Black Muslims

Timothy Miller

27   Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement

Robert Weisbrot

28   Santería and Vodou in the United States

Joseph M. Murphy

29   The Rastafari Abroad

Barry Chevannes

30   Peoples Temple

John R. Hall

Part VI.   Ancient Wisdom and New Age Movements

31   Theosophy

Robert S. Ellwood

32   New Thought and the Harmonial Family

Gail Harley

33   Spiritualism and Channeling

Shawn Michael Trimble

34   Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft

Carol Matthews

35   Whither the New Age?

J. Gordon Melton

36   The Association for Research and Enlightenment: Saved by the New Age

Phillip Lucas

37   ECKANKAR: From Ancient Science of Soul Travel to New Age Religion

Roger E. Olson

38   The Evolution of Hippie Communal Spirituality: The Farm and Other Hippies Who Didn’t Give Up

Albert Bates and Timothy Miller

Part VII.   And Many More.…

39   New Religions and American Indian Religion

James R. Lewis

40   The Church of Scientology: Lightning Rod for Cultural Boundary Conflicts

Mary Farrell Bednarowski

41   UFO Religious Movements

Robert S. Ellwood

42   Satanism and Satanic Churches: The Contemporary Incarnations

David G. Bromley and Susan G. Ainsley

43   The Evolution of Modern American Anticult Ideology: A Case Study in Frame Extension

Anson Shupe and David G. Bromley

Appendix I:   A Bibliographical Guide to Alternative Religions

Appendix II:   Chronology of Alternative Religions in America

List of Contributors

Index

Timothy Miller is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas.