Cults A selected bibliography of materials in the University of Oregon Libraries * in support of the Community Conversations program in University Housing * ________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND & OVERVIEWS Cults in America : A Reference Handbook / by James R. Lewis. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998 Location: KNIGHT REFERENCE Call #: BL2525 .L486 1998 A good place to begin research on cults. Includes historical, sociological, psychological, and religious perspectives, statistics, legislation, profiles of specific groups, a directory of organizations, and a bibliography. The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions / by James R. Lewis. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998 Location: KNIGHT REFERENCE Call #: BL2525 .L49 1998 A handy reference for quick overviews of different religious groups from around the world. Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups / by Stephen E. Atkins. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002 Location: KNIGHT REFERENCE Call #: HN90.R3 A75 2002 An encyclopedia that covers the activities of extremists within the U.S. since the 1950s. The author defines extremism as "the advocacy of extreme positions by movements, groups, and organizations" and includes political, religious, economic, and social extremes. Included are groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, PETA, and the American Indian Movement; as well as individuals such as David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh. GENERAL SOURCES Cults : Faith, Healing, and Coercion / by Marc Galanter. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP603 .G35 1999 This book provides an overview of the cult phenomena with a scholarly yet accessible approach. Cults, Religion, and Violence / edited by David G. Bromley, J. Gordon Melton. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BL65.V55 C85 2002 Explores the relationship between religious groups and violence, both in history and in the present day. Legitimating New Religions / by James R. Lewis. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2003 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP603 .L49 2003 This book explores how emerging religions become socially acceptable and rise above “cult” status. Using case studies, the author shows how various groups have sought acceptance and how their critics have tried to denigrate them. Cases include Native American prophet religions, the Church of Christ- Scientist, Scientology, Church of Satan, Heaven’s Gate, and Unitarianism. Cults: A Selected Bibliography, Jan. 2007 University of Oregon Libraries http://libweb.uoregon.edu/reference SPECIFIC CULTS Jonestown Awake in a Nightmare : Jonestown, The Only Eyewitness Account / by Ethan Feinsod. New York : Norton, 1981 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.P46F44 1981 Hearing the Voices of Jonestown / by Mary McCormick Maaga. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1998 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.P46 M22 1998 Salvation and Suicide : An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown / by David Chidester. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1988 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.P46C48 1988 The Branch Davidians Why Waco? : Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America / by James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.B72 T33 1995 The Branch Davidians of Waco : The History and Beliefs of an Apocalyptic Sect / by Kenneth G.C. Newport. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.B72 N49 2006 Other Groups The Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall Community : The Relationship of Radical Individualism and Authoritarianism / by Amy B. Siskind. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003 Location: KNIGHT Call #: RC489.T67 S56 2003 Tells the story of a “radical therapeutic community”’ that provided an alternative to the nuclear family. CULTS IN OREGON Brides of Eden : A True Story Imagined / by Linda Crew. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001 Location: Knight Library Call #: PS3553.R439 B75 2001 In this novel based on true events, sixteen-year-old Eva and her female friends become obsessed with a charismatic young man who comes to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1904, claiming to be a Christian prophet Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram : The Role of Shared Values in the Creation of a Community / by Lewis F. Carter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.R342 C37 1990 The Rajneesh Chronicles / edited by Win McCormack. Portland, Or. : New Oregon Pub.,1987 Location: Special Collections & Archives—Oregon Collection Call #: BP605.R33 1987 Cults: A Selected Bibliography, Jan. 2007 University of Oregon Libraries http://libweb.uoregon.edu/reference Hellbent for Enlightenment : Unmasking Sex, Power, and Death with a Notorious Master / by Rosemary Hamilton. Ashland, Or. : White Cloud Press, 1998 Location: Special Collections & Archives—Oregon Collection Call #: BP605.R344 H36 1998 Holy Rollers : Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult / by T. McCracken and Robert B. Blodgett. Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Press, 2002 Location: LAW LIBRARY Call #: BP605.C546 M33 2002 A Place called Antelope : The Rajneesh Story / by Donna Quick. Ryderwood, Wash. : August Press, 1995 Location: Special Collections & Archives—Oregon Collection Call #: BL2527.A67 Q53 1995 The Promise of Paradise : A Woman’s Intimate Story of the Perils of Life with Rajneesh / by Satya Bharti Franklin. Barrytown, N.Y. : Station Hill Press ; New York : Distributed by Talman Co., 1992 Location: Special Collections & Archives—Oregon Collection Call #: BP605.R344 F734 1992 PSYCHOLOGY Bounded Choice : True Believers and Charismatic Cults / by Janja Lalich. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.H36 L35 2004 Combatting Cult Mind Control / by Steven Hassan. Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, 1988 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP603 .H375 1988 Leaving Cults : The Dynamics of Defection / by Stuart A. Wright. Washington, D.C. : Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1987 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP603 .W75 1987 LEADERS Feet of Clay : Saints, Sinners, and Madmen : A Study of Gurus / by Anthony Storr. New York : Free Press, 1996 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BL72 .S76 1996 Prophetic Charisma : The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities / by Len Oakes. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1997 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BL633 .O24 1997 HISTORY The Stammering Century / by Gilbert Seldes. New York, The John Day Company, 1928 Location: KNIGHT Call # E169.1 .S46 A record of the cults and manias in America during the nineteenth century. Cults: A Selected Bibliography, Jan. 2007 University of Oregon Libraries http://libweb.uoregon.edu/reference Mystics and Messiahs : Cults and New Religions in American History / by Philip Jenkins. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BL2525 .J46 2000 WOMEN & CHILDREN Children in New Religions / edited by Susan J. Palmer, Charlotte E. Hardman. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1999 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP603 .C48 1999 Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers : Women’s Roles in New Religions / by Susan Jean Palmer. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1994 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BL2520 .P36 1994 Passionate Journeys : Why Successful Women Joined a Cult / by Marion S. Goldman. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1999 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BP605.R342 G65 1999 Women in New Religions : in Search of Community, Sexuality, and Spiritual Power / by Elizabeth Puttick. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1997 Location: KNIGHT Call #: BL458 .P88 1997 VIDEOS/DVDs Bhagwan, The Way of the Heart Location: VIDEO COLLECTION Call #: VIDEOTAPE 00189 Teachings of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, set to scenes of the life and people of the former commune of Rajneespuram in Oregon. I Go to the Feet of the Awakened One Location: VIDEO COLLECTION Call #: VIDEOTAPE 00190 Teachings of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, interspersed with scenes of life at Rajneeshpuram, his former commune in Oregon. Shows scenes from Enlightenment Day, March 21, 1984 at Rajneeshpuram. Heaven's Gate Cult Location: VIDEO COLLECTION Call #: VIDEO DVD 01548 DVD release of an episode of the television program Nightline, originally broadcast March 31, 1997. Host, Chris Wallace ; Reporter, Michel McQueen ; panelists, Cynthia Kisser, Martin Marty, Bruce Epperly. Holy Ghost People Location: VIDEO COLLECTION Call #: VIDEOTAPE 03411 A report on the religious fervor of a small Pentecostal congregation in West Virginia whose fundamentalist philosophy encourages the biblical teaching of speaking in tongues and handling serpents. Rajneeshpuram : An Experiment to Provoke God Location: VIDEO COLLECTION Call #: VIDEOTAPE 05887 Cults: A Selected Bibliography, Jan. 2007 University of Oregon Libraries http://libweb.uoregon.edu/reference Presents the story of the Rajneeshpuram community founded in 1981 in rural eastern Oregon. Interviews with journalists, local ranchers, and former residents combine with archival footage to present the power struggle between the locals and the religious community. Rajneesh Piram [i.e. Puram]/Oregon Location: VIDEO COLLECTION Call #: VIDEOTAPE 00148 ABC News Nightline looks at the City of Rajneesh (formerly Antelope), Oregon, shortly before the November 1984 elections when the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's organization bussed people from many parts of the country to Rajneesh, allegedly to aid that organization to strengthen its political power at the polls.