This article discusses involvement in a new religious movement (religious cult) from a
sociological perspective developed from a qualitative study of individuals' involvement in …

This dissertation looks at the creative identity of an American yoga, both rooted in its Indic
origins and radically transformed in its US manifestations. It traces the broad historical …

Abstract Although Swami Muktananda's Siddha Yoga is a relatively new movement it has
had a surprising amount of offshoots and schismatic groups claiming connection to its …

The current public image of cults continues to be a product of media presentations from the
last century, namely the Jonestown mass murder-suicide in Guyana and the Branch …