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Book Review Index

Book Review: 1984 – ONCE MORE

Author:  Debold  Walter       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: A Guide to New Religious Movements

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 2 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: A Matter of Basic Principles: Bill Gothard and the Christian Life

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: A to Z of New Religious Movements

Author:  Dowhower  Richard  L.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 316-321 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens

Author:  Burks  Ron       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 82-83 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_aliens

Book Review: Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties that Bind

Author:  Goldberg  Lorna       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 57-63 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India

Author:  Robbins  Thomas       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 153-158 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Anatomy of a Life Possessed by Maria Ferrara Pema

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_personalaccount   

Book Review: Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ

Author:  Lalich  Janja       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 77-79 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_icc

Book Review: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 312-315 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Author:  Armstrong  Karen       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 188-189 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_islam

Book Review: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_political   

Book Review: Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults

Author:  Lalich  Janja       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 65-69 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing

Author:  Perry  Bruce  D.  M.D., Ph.D., Other Author(s):  Maia Szalavitz
Page(s): 204-209 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Captives of a Concept: Understanding the Illusionary Concept that Holds Jehovah’s Witnesses Captive

Author:  Rudin  Marcia       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 445-446 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_jw

Book Review: Cassadaga: The South’s Oldest Spiritual Community

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_occult  grp_newage

Book Review: Charles Mason Remey and the Bahá'í Faith

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_manson

Book Review: Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco

Author:  Borgman  Dean       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet’s Apocalyptic Movement

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Conversion: Book on Conversion and Social Protest

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_conversion   

Book Review: Cult Around the Corner

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Cults: Too Good to be True by Raphael Aron

Author:  Bardin  Livia       Other Author(s):  Livia Bardin, M.S.W.
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_recovery   

Book Review: Da Vinci Code

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Devil Is a Gentleman: Exploring America’s Religious Fringe

Author:  Looney  J.  A.    Other Author(s):  J. Anna Looney, Ph.D.
Page(s): 213-216 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_druids

Book Review: Devotee Farm

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Education: Guidebook on Cults

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_edu   

Book Review: Enlightenment Blues: My Years with an American Guru

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Fellowship: Book on “Fractured Families”

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_thefellowship

Book Review: From Dean’s List to Dumpsters: Why I Left Harvard to Join a Cult

Author:  Guerra  Jim       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_garbageeater

Book Review: From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era

Author:  Whitsett  Doni     Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Other Author(s):  Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D.
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_conversion   

Book Review: Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America.

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law

Author:  Lottick  Edward       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 3 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: God’s Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped

Author:  Whitsett  Doni     Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 70-75 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_polygamy   

Book Review: Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of Your Life When Your Life Makes No Sense

Author:     Frank  MacHovec    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Grandparents’ Rights: What Every Grandparent Needs to Know

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth

Author:  Masis  Katherine  V.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 451-453 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_zen

Book Review: Hare Krishna Transformed

Author:  Rudin  Marcia       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 169-174 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_harekrishna

Book Review: Heart of a Cult

Author:             Other Author(s):  Gina Maria Catena, MS
Page(s): 326-327 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_excluisvebrethren

Book Review: Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 175-181 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_islam

Book Review: Help At Any Cost

Author:  Eichel  Steve  K.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 327-332 Topic(s)/Group(s): teenbehavior,tp_bootcamp  grp_scientology

Book Review: Herding the Moo: Exploits of a Martial Arts Cult

Author:  Rudin  Marcia  R.  M.A. Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 210-212 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_martialarts

Book Review: Holy Madness: the shock tactics and radical teachings of crazy-wise adepts, holy fools, and rascal gurus; The Mystery of Light: The life and teaching of Omraam Mikha?l Aïvanhov

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Holy Rollers: Murder and Madness in Oregon’s Love Cult

Author:  MacHovec  Frank       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: I Can’t Hear God Anymore

Author:  Svoboda  Lois  V.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 454-455 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_personalaccount  grp_trinityfoundation

Book Review: Imaginary Friends

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 165-168 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: In the shadow of the new age: Decoding the Findhorn Foundation

Author:  MacHovec, Ph. D.  Frank       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book review: Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult

Author:  Tourish  Dennis     Ph.D. Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_political   

Book Review: Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 217-222 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Jehovah’s Witnesses: Canvassing Right Upheld

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_jw

Book Review: Justice Denied, What America Must Do to Protect Its Children

Author:  Moore-Emmett  Andrea       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 167-168 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Killer Cults: Murderous Messiahs and Their Fanatical Followers.

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_violence   

Book Review: Le Dico des sectes (The Dictionary of the Sects)

Author:  Drogou  Annick       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_asatru

Book Review: Le Phénomène des Sectes. L'Étude du Fonctionnement des Groupes

Author:  Vaillancourt  Jean-Guy       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Les Sectes (Sects)

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_international   

Book Review: Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune

Author:  Hollenbach  Margaret       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Madness and Evil—A Review of The Sullivanian Institute/Fourth Wall Community: The Relationship of Radical Individualism and Authoritarianism

Author:  Shaw  Daniel     LCSW Other Author(s):  Daniel Shaw, LCSW
Page(s): 333-343 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_sullivanians

Book Review: Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time: A Psychological Study of Destructive Cult Leaders from Reverend Jim Jones to Osama bin Laden

Author:  Dole  Arthur   A.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 79-82 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_terrorism,tp_thoughtreform   

Book Review: Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_acadialog   

Book Review: My Life in Orange

Author:  Kendall  Lois       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: New Religions and the Nazis

Author:  Andron  Sandy (Alexander)       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 80-81 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_nazi

Book Review: New Religious Movements/Cults: Sociologist’s Book Criticized

Author:  Lalich  Janja       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_religious_studies,tp_sociology   

Book Review: oCULT: They Didn't Think It Could Happen in Their Church

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 344-346 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_biblebased

Book Review: On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left & Tabernacle of Hate: Why They Bombed Oklahoma City

Author:  Janja  Lalich       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_newallianceparty, grp_kkk

Book Review: Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 159-164 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_opusdei

Book Review: Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman’s Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult

Author:  Kochan  Mary       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 447-450 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_personalaccount  grp_jw

Book Review: People Who Play God: How Ultra-Authorities Enslave the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Their Victims

Author:  MacHovec  Frank       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Polygamy’s Rape of Rachael Strong: Protected Environment for Predators

Author:  Weber  Laura  A.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 84 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_polygamy   

Book Review: Power Games: Influence, Persuasion and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training

Author:  Eichel  Steve  K.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 64-72 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_thoughtreform   

Book Review: Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold

Author:  MacHovec  Frank        Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Protest

Author:  Rudin  Marcia  R.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Psychology of Terrorism

Author:  MacHovec, Ph. D.  Frank       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_terrorism   

Book Review: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Religion that Kills: Christian Science, Abuse, Neglect and Mind Control

Author:  MacHovec, Ph. D.  Frank       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Remnant

Author:  Mansfield  Hal       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_fiction   

Book Review: Remnant by Georgia Flosi

Author:  Mansfield  Hal       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_fiction   

Book Review: Rhetoric of Religious “Cults”: Terms of Use and Abuse

Author:  Forester  Matthew       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 322-325 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_synanon

Book Review: Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents by J. Milton

Author:  MacHovec  Frank     Ph.D. Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_cultural   

Book Review: Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

Author:  Dole  Arthur  A.  Ph.D. Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 178-181 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_psychotherapy

Book Review: Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction

Author:  Ayella  Marybeth       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 1 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Servant of the Lotus Feet: A Hare Krishna Odyssey

Author:  Muster  Nori       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 169-177 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_harekrishna

Book Review: Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 182-184 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_criticalthinking   

Book Review: Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy

Author:  MacHovec  Frank       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_polygamy   

Book Review: Spiritual Intelligence, the Behavioral Sciences, and the Humanities

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare

Author:  Schuller  Jeanne       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 8-11 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_acadialog   

Book Review: Super Power Syndrome

Author:  Debold  Walter       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships

Author:  Whitsett  Doni     Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 169-171 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill

Author:  Stahelski  Anthony       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 146-152 Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Terrorismo Religioso. La Guerra del Siglo XXI. El Ataque al World Trade Center y al Pentágono

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_terrorism   

Book Review: Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat

Author:  Lalich  Janja       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Theosophy and Culture: Nicholas Roerich

Author:  Szimhart  Joseph  P.    Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 347-350 Topic(s)/Group(s):    grp_theosophicalsociety

Book Review: Varieties of Anomalous Experiences: Examining Scientific Evidence

Author:             Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     

Book Review: Weapons of Fraud: A Source Book for Fraud Fighters

Author:  Russell  Colleen       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): 73-78 Topic(s)/Group(s): tp_influence   

Book/Video Review: The Matrix Cult

Author:  Tumanov  Vladimir       Other Author(s):   
Page(s): Web Version Topic(s)/Group(s):     


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