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• Course Syllabus
  
• Course Requirements
  
• Course Goals
  
• Course Readings
  
• Profile Page Web Development Resources
  
• Why Study New Religious Movements?
  

• Introduction: Cults and Sects in America

• Who Are The Cults? Orienting Information
  Cults, Sects, Denominations, Churches, Ecclesia

• Cults and Sects in America: An Orientation

• Some Central Concepts of Our Inquiry

• Paradigms in Conflict:
  Secularization Theory VS The Theory of Religious Economy

• Cult Formation: A Sociological Model

• Why Do People Join NRMs?
  A Social Science Model

• Joining Religious Movements: The Brainwashing Model

• Leaving New Religious Movements:
  Social Science Perspectives

• Leaving New Religious Movements:
  The Deprogramming Model

• NRM Group Survival:
  Succession and Institutionalization,
  The Role of Charismatic Leaders

• The Anti-Cult Movement

• The Social Influence Model, and,
  The Invalidity of the Brainwashing Model

• Fundamentalism: Origins, Development, Current Status

• The Unification Church (The Moonies):
  An Orientation

• Mormons:
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

• New Age Lecture II:
  Health as Integrating Core

• Pentecostalism

• Waco! Resources for understanding
  the Branch Davidians and the Waco tragedy