Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge, Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 117-131
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Stark et al. (1979) studied this question.