Agents of Discord: Deprogramming, Pseudo-Science, and the American Anticult Movement

by Susan Darnell and Anson Shupe

It is widely acknowledged that the United States has always provided fertile ground for the growth of new religious movements and cults, but modern organized efforts to oppose and restrict them have been less well understood. In Agents of Discord, Anson Shupe and Susan E. Darnell offer a groundbreaking analysis of the operations and motives of these oppositional groups, which they generally group under the umbrella term of the anticult movement.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765803232
• ISBN13: 9780765803238
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"