Are cults a serious threat?

Cults are prone to crime and violence / Robert L. Snow -- Cults are no more violent than other religious groups / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley -- Cults brainwash their members / Margaret Thaler Singer -- Cult brainwashing is a myth / David V. Barrett -- Cults doomsday mentality fosters mass suicides / Dereck Daschke and W. Michael Ashcraft -- Authorities provoke some cult mass deaths / Stuart A. Wright -- Cults are corruptions of legitimate religions / Ron Rhodes -- Anti-cult laws are a threat to religious freedom / Moira Shaw -- Anti-cult prejudice denies minority religions a fair hearing / James R. Lewis -- Scientology is an abusive and unscrupulous cut / Janet Reitman -- Scientology is a practical religion dedicated to solving world Problems / David Miscavige -- Cults foster us-versus-them attitudes / Arthur J. Deikman -- The threat of a cult depends on the observers worldview / Eugene V. Gallagher.