In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
Bitter and angry after his parents' divorce, Jon joins a cult, The Religion of Hebetheus, at his high school and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap a fellow student and suspected terrorist, but their plans go terribly wrong.
Traces the history and analyzes the appeal and the dangers of cults, or religious groups requiring blind obedience to a living leader, which have gradually grown in strength and popularity during the past twenty-five years.
The apparently well-adjusted teenage daughter of a Methodist minister leaves home to pursue the promise of a religious group known as the Fellowship of the Seven Stars.
Discusses the religious diversity in the United States, with more than 800 articles on important people, religious denominations, organizations and sects, significant events and themes, key issues, and movements.
During World War II, a sixteen-year-old patrols a deserted South Pacific island each night as he and other members of an Australian religious cult await the fiery end of the Earth and their deliverance.
Jay and Lila Cooper enter the cave-tombs of Anak with their father in hopes of finding a coworker and discover, instead, a religion that allows the fearsome Anak Ha-Raphah to control the local villagers.
