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Led to write the book by a conviction that a great deal of unnecessary suffering has resulted from ignorance of the nature and characteristics of the current wave of new religious movements in the West. Discusses, among others, the Children of God, Church of Scientology, the Human Potential Movement, Rastafarianism, Unification Church.
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