Cults - the Occult

1 The Pykewater Library W. D. S. Pennington Cults Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006.

Altemeyer, Bob. The Authoritarians. Lulu Online Publishing, 2006.

Athans, Philip. How to Start Your Own Religion: Form a Church, Gain Followers, Become TaxExempt, and Sway the Minds of Millions. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2012.

Atkinson, Jane Monnig. The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Bloch, Marc. The Royal Touch. Trans. J. E. Anderson. New York, NY: Dorset Press, 1961.

Brinton, Crane. The Jacobins: An Essay in the New History. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishing, 2011.

Brower, Sam. Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2011.

Buehler, Arthur F. Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Carnes, Mark C. Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.

Carroll, Robert P. When Prophecy Failed: Reactions and Responses to Failure in the Old Testament Prophetic Traditions. London, UK: Xpress Reprints, 1996.

Chaney, William A. The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970.

Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown (Revised Edition). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia (15th Anniversary Edition). Philadelphia, PA: De Capo Press, 2009.

Davis, Philip G. Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality. Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing, 1998.

De Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Rene. Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities. Kathmandu, Nepal: Book Faith India, 1996.

Dikotter, Frank. How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Dohrman, H. T. California Cult: The Story of ‘Mankind United’. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1958.

Elliott, Alan J. A. Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore. London, UK: London School of Economics, 1955.

Ellis, Bill. Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Enroth, Ronald M. and J. Gordon Melton. Why Cults Succeed Where the Church Fails. Elgin, IL:

2 Brethren Press, 1985.

Evans, Christopher. Cults of Unreason. New York, NY: Delta Books/Dell Publishing, 1975.

Fauset, Arthur Huff. Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North.

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.

Fondakowski, Leigh. Stories from Jonestown. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Fraade-Blanar, Zoe and Aaron M. Glazer. Superfandom: How Our Obsessions Are Changing What We Buy And Who We Are. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2017.

Freed, Josh. Moonwebs: Journey Into the Mind of a Cult. Toronto, Canada: Dorset Publishing, 1980.

Galanter, Marc. Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion (Second Edition). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Goodrick-Clarke, Nichola. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity.

New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008.

Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935. Wellingborough, UK: The Aquarian Press, 1985.

Guinn, Jeff. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Hones and Peoples Temple. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2017.

Hall, John R. Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History (Second Paperback Edition). New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.

Harris, Ruth. Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2008.

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York, NY: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.

Hoffman II, Michael A. Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare. Coeur D’Alene, ID: Independent History and Research, 2001.

Johnson, Paul E. and Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Jorgensen, Danny L. The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019.

Kaplan, David E. and Andrew Marshall. The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia.

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1996.

Kaplan, Jeffrey and Helene Loow, Eds. The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2002.

Kerr, Howard and Charles L. Crow. The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Klaniczay, Gabor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princes: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe.

Trans. Eva Palmai. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Klaniczay, Gabor. The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe. Ed. Karen Margolis. Trans. Susan Singerman.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad. The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power. Berkeley, CA: Frog Books, 1993.

3 Lanternari, Vittorio. The Religions of the Oppressed: A Study of Modern Messianic Cults. Trans.

Lisa Sergio. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.

Leese, Daniel. Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China’s Cultural Revolution. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Lofland, John. Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

Martin, Walter. The Kingdom of the Cults: The Definitive Work on the Subject (Sixth Edition).

Bloomington, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2019.

Monod, Paul Kleber. Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in t eh Age of Enlightenment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Mooney, James. The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. Miami, FL: Hardpress Publishing, unknown date.

Naquin, Susan. Shantung Rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

Noble, David F. The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Owen, Alex. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer, Ed. The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Shumaker, Wayne. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance: A Study in Intellectual Patterns.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1973.

Spence, Jonathan D. God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly King of Hong Xiuquan. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Stein, Alexandra. Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attaching in Cults and Totalitarian Systems.

New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.

Storm, Rachel. In Search of Heaven on Earth: The Roots of the New Age Movement. London, UK: The Aquarian Press/Thorsons, 1992.

Storr, Anthony. Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus. New York, NY: Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Warner, Marina. Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983.

Webb, James. The Occult Establishment. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1988.

Webb, James. The Occult Underground. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1990.

Whitehouse, Harvey. Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea. New York, NY: Clarendon Press/Oxford, 2003.

Wilson, Colin. The Occult: A History. New York, NY: Random House, 1971.

Worsley, Peter. The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of ‘Cargo’ Cults in Melanesia (Second, Augmented Edition). New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1968.

Yates, Frances. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

Young, George M. The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His

4 Followers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012.