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Part I. New understandings
Christian Science. From "Retrospection and introspection" / Mary Baker Eddy ; From "Science and health with key to the scriptures" / Mary Baker Eddy
Theosophy. From "Why I became a theosophist" / Alice Bolting ; From "The ocean of theosophy" / William Q. Judge
UFO religious groups. From "Connections : solving our alien abduction mystery" / Beth Collings and Anna Jamerson
Part II. New selves
Wicca. The principles of Wiccan belief / The council of American witches ; From "The Wicca handbook" / Eileen Holland ; From "Wicca : a guide for the solitary practitioner" / Scott Cunningham
Soka Gakkai. Human revolution / Daisaku Ikeda ; From "The Buddha in daily life : an introduction to the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin" / Richard Causton
Part III. New families
The Unification Church. The purpose of creation / from Exposition of the divine principle ; Blessed marriage in the Unification Church : sacramental ideals and their application to daily marital life / Hugh and Nora Spurgin
The Family/Children of God. From "Women in The Family" / Paul and Nora Williams ; From "One wife" / Moses David ; From "The Family's foundation : God's law of love" / The Family ; From "Responsibilities of the charter home : regarding children and parents" / The Family
Santeria. From "The altar of my soul : the living traditions of Santeria" / Marta Morena Vega
Part IV. New societies
The Rastafarians. From "The Kebra Nagast : the lost Bible of Rastafarian wisdom and faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica" / Gerald Hausman ; From "The holy piby : the blackman's Bible" / Robert Athlyi Rogers
The Nation of Islam. From "Message to the blackman in America" / Elijah Muhammad ; From "The autobiography of Malcolm X" / Malcolm X and Alex Haley
People's Temple. Interview on Ukiah radio station, May 10 or 11, 1973 / Jim Jones ; Political and religious lecture, October 15, 1974 / Jim Jones ; Sermon in Philadelphia, 1976 / Jim Jones ; The "Death tape", November 18, 1978 ; Suicide note / Richard Tropp
Part V. New worlds
The Adventist tradition. From "Evidence from Scripture and history of the second coming of Christ about the year 1843 : exhibited in a course of lectures" / William Miller ; From "America in prophecy" / Ellen G. White ; From "A place called Waco : a survivor's story" / David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson
Jehovah's Witnesses. From "Millennial dawn, vol. 1 : the plan of the ages" / Charles Taze Russell ; From Jehovah's Witness tract literature : "Life in a peaceful world" and "Eternal happiness : in Heaven or on Earth? " ; From "Knowledge that leads to everlasting life"
The new millennium : NRMs and the Year 2000. From the Heaven's Gate website ; From "Disappearance of the spiritual life of earth and the madness of the human-devil realm" / Hon-ming Chen ; From "Give me that online religion" / Brenda E. Brasher
Appendix: Constructing the new religious threat : anticult and countercult movements / Douglas E. Cowan.
Christian Science. From "Retrospection and introspection" / Mary Baker Eddy ; From "Science and health with key to the scriptures" / Mary Baker Eddy
Theosophy. From "Why I became a theosophist" / Alice Bolting ; From "The ocean of theosophy" / William Q. Judge
UFO religious groups. From "Connections : solving our alien abduction mystery" / Beth Collings and Anna Jamerson
Part II. New selves
Wicca. The principles of Wiccan belief / The council of American witches ; From "The Wicca handbook" / Eileen Holland ; From "Wicca : a guide for the solitary practitioner" / Scott Cunningham
Soka Gakkai. Human revolution / Daisaku Ikeda ; From "The Buddha in daily life : an introduction to the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin" / Richard Causton
Part III. New families
The Unification Church. The purpose of creation / from Exposition of the divine principle ; Blessed marriage in the Unification Church : sacramental ideals and their application to daily marital life / Hugh and Nora Spurgin
The Family/Children of God. From "Women in The Family" / Paul and Nora Williams ; From "One wife" / Moses David ; From "The Family's foundation : God's law of love" / The Family ; From "Responsibilities of the charter home : regarding children and parents" / The Family
Santeria. From "The altar of my soul : the living traditions of Santeria" / Marta Morena Vega
Part IV. New societies
The Rastafarians. From "The Kebra Nagast : the lost Bible of Rastafarian wisdom and faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica" / Gerald Hausman ; From "The holy piby : the blackman's Bible" / Robert Athlyi Rogers
The Nation of Islam. From "Message to the blackman in America" / Elijah Muhammad ; From "The autobiography of Malcolm X" / Malcolm X and Alex Haley
People's Temple. Interview on Ukiah radio station, May 10 or 11, 1973 / Jim Jones ; Political and religious lecture, October 15, 1974 / Jim Jones ; Sermon in Philadelphia, 1976 / Jim Jones ; The "Death tape", November 18, 1978 ; Suicide note / Richard Tropp
Part V. New worlds
The Adventist tradition. From "Evidence from Scripture and history of the second coming of Christ about the year 1843 : exhibited in a course of lectures" / William Miller ; From "America in prophecy" / Ellen G. White ; From "A place called Waco : a survivor's story" / David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson
Jehovah's Witnesses. From "Millennial dawn, vol. 1 : the plan of the ages" / Charles Taze Russell ; From Jehovah's Witness tract literature : "Life in a peaceful world" and "Eternal happiness : in Heaven or on Earth? " ; From "Knowledge that leads to everlasting life"
The new millennium : NRMs and the Year 2000. From the Heaven's Gate website ; From "Disappearance of the spiritual life of earth and the madness of the human-devil realm" / Hon-ming Chen ; From "Give me that online religion" / Brenda E. Brasher
Appendix: Constructing the new religious threat : anticult and countercult movements / Douglas E. Cowan.