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Profile Notebook Table of Contents Profile Notebook Table of Contents Order a complete 567-page Profile Notebook here: www.watchman.org/notebook Or order the complete PDF Digital Edition notebook here: www.watchman.org/PDF • Acupuncture • The Children of God/The Family • Fantasy Role Play Games • Agnotsticism • Chopra, Deepak • Freemasonry • Ahmadiyya Movement • Christadelphians • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Alternative Medicine • Christian Identity (FLDS) • Animism • Christian Science • Goddess Worship • Armstrongism • Church of God in Christ, • Gospel Assembly Church Mennonite • Assemblies of Yahweh • Halloween • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- • Astrology day Saints • Harris, Sam • Atheism • Church of Satan/Anton LaVey • Heaven’s Gate • Aum Shinrikyo • Church of Scientology • Hebrew Roots Movement • Baha’i Faith • Church Universal and • Hinduism Triumphant • Bailey, Alice • Hinn, Benny • Church of Wells • Bell, Rob • Holy Spirit Association for the • Concerned Christians Unification of World Christianity • Black Hebrew Israelites • Cosmos (Television Series) • Holyland/Reach, Inc. • Boston Church of Christ/ International Churches of Christ • A Course in Miracles • House of Yahweh • Branhamism/William Branham • Crossan, John Dominic • Houston, Jean • The Brethren/The Jim Roberts • Crowley, Aleister • Hypnosis Group • The Da Vinci Code • Iglesia ni Cristo • Burning Man • Dawkins, Richard • International House of Prayer • Cayce, Edgar (IHOP) • Eckankar • Centering/Contemplative Prayer • International Society for Krishna • Edward, John Consciousness • Channeling • Ehrman, Bart D. • Islam • Chen Tao/The Right Way • Family Radio/Harold Camping • Jainism • Judaism • Psychics • Tibetan Buddhism • Kabbalah • Pyramidology • Tolle, Eckhart • The Kabbalah Centre • The Raelian Religion • Transcendental Meditation • Krauss, Lawrence • Rastafarianism • True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of the Last Days • The Long Island Medium • Ray, James Arthur • The Twelve Tribes • Mayan Calendar: 2012 • Reiki Therapy • The Twilight Series • McLaren, Brian • Reincarnation • Unitarian Universalist • Meyer, Joyce • Relativism Association • Miranda, José Luis de Jesús • Reorganized Church of Jesus • Unity School of Christianity Christ of Latter Day Saints/ • MorningStar Ministries Community of Christ • The URANTIA Book • Mythicism • Roman Catholicism • Van Praagh, James • Nation of Islam • The Secret • Voodoo • New Age Movement • Seventh-day Adventist Church • Watchtower Bible and Tract Society/Jehovah’s Witnesses • Nichiren Shoshu/Soka Gakkai • The Shack Buddhism • The Way, International • Share International • North Texas Church of • Weigh Down Freethought • Shepherd’s Chapel Workshop/Remnant Fellowship • Nostradamus • Shi’a Islam • Westboro Baptist Church • NXIVM • Shinto • Winfrey, Oprah • Occult • Sikhism • Witchcraft/Wicca • Oneness Pentecostalism • Spiritual Abuse • Word-Faith Movement • Order of the Solar Temple • Spiritualism • World Mission Society Church of God • Osteen, Joel • Star Wars • Yoga • Ouija Board • Swedenborgianism • Zeitgeist: The Movie • Patterns in the Cults • The Temple of Set • Zen Buddhism • Philadelphia Church of God • Theosophy • Zoroastrianism • Postmodernism • Therapeutic Touch Watchman Fellowship PROFILE NOTEBOOK An Evangelical Christian Evaluation of New Religious Movements, Cults, the Occult, and Controversial Doctrines By James K. Walker and the Staff of Watchman Fellowship Copyright © 1993-2020 Watchman Fellowship, Inc Published by Watchman Fellowship, Inc. PO Box 310 Arlington, TX 76010 USA ● www.watchman.org Additional Profiles are published by Watchman Fellowship approximately 6 times per year, covering subjects such as new religious movements, counterfeit Christianity, the occult, New Age Spirituality, controversial doctrines and practices. For a free subscription for new Profiles, click: www.watchman.org/subscribe All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other – except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published in the United States of America. .
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