The religious fringe : a history of alternative religions in America

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Backgrounds in the West. Introduction ; Fringe groups in the West -- Religious innovations in early national America. Early national America : social and religious movements ; Early metaphysical and occult movements ; Religious communalism ; Mormonism and the Christadelphians -- Cracks in the Protestant empire : the Civil War to World War II. American culture in the late nineteenth century ; Nineteenth-century occult and metaphysical movements ; Early Eastern groups ; Christian-related bodies ; Black religious groups Eastern groups in post-Christian America. Religious innovations in post-Christian America ; The turn East : whynow? ; Hindu, Sikh and Jain-related bodies ; Buddhist groups ; Islam-related groups -- The occult, psychic groups and the New Age movement in post-Christian America. Twentieth-century occult and metaphysical movements ; The New Age movement ; Psychospiritual or self-improvement groups -- Christian bodies in post-Christian America. The Christian background ; The Unification Church ; The People's Temple ; Aberrational groups in the Jesus Movement.