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Cults

By: J. Gordon Melton
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities

During the 1970s and 1980s, several dozen new religious movements were singled out and widely labeled “cults,” becoming the focus of significant public controversy. Prominent among these groups were the Unification Church, founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920); the ...

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  Melton, J. (2003). Cults. In K. Christensen & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 358-360). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n138
  
  Melton, J. Gordon. "Cults." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson, 358-360. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n138.
  
  Melton, J 2003, 'Cults', in Christensen, K & Levinson, D (eds), Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 358-360, viewed 26 November 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n138.
  
  Melton, J. Gordon. "Cults." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Eds. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. 358-360. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 26 Nov. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412952583.n138.
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