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Readings
• Dawson, Lorne L. Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2004.
• Lewis, James R., ed. Odd Gods: New Religions and the Cult Controversy. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001.
• Miller, Timothy, ed. America’s Alternative Religions. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995.
• Wilson, Bryan, and Jamie Cresswell, eds. New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response. London, England: Routledge, 2001.
Weblinks
• The Center for Studies on New Religions—www.cesnur.org
• Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions—www.novareligio.org
Documentary Films
• Children of God (1988), ABC News (MTI Film and Video), 30 min. videocassette.
• Cults: Heaven’s Gate and Branch Davidians (1996), A&E Television Networks (New Video Group).
• Different Paths: Shamanism, Cults and Religion on Demand (1998), Princeton, NJ. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 57 min., streaming video.
• New Religious Movements (1999), Insight Media, 60 min., videocassette.
Popular Films
• The Razor’s Edge (1946), dir. Edmund Golding. Adapted from a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham, it portrays the spiritual journey of a veteran of World War I in search of life’s meaning.
• Holy Smoke! (1999), dir. Jane Campion. A controversial melodrama centering on cults and deprogrammers.
• Jesus of Montreal (1989), dir. Denys Arcand. An ironic reenactment of the Passion Play set in contemporary Montreal.
• Going Clear (2015), dir. Alex Gibney. A controversial expose of Scientology based on Lawrence Wright’s 2013 book of the same name.