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FROM THE EDITORS

 

Articles

LYMAN TOWER SARGENT

Health and Health Care in Intentional Communities                                                      1

SIBYLLE BECKER-KILIAN

From Cloistered Courts to Prairie Colonies: Five Centuries of Hutterite Communal Architecture                                                                                            25

 

Book Reviews

CULTS LIKE US!: WHY DOOMSDAY THINKING DRIVES AMERICA

JANE BORDEN

Cheryl Coulthard, Reviewer                                                               69

 

DEADHEADS AND CHRISTIANS: YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR LOVE

THOMAS COOGAN

Shawn David Young, Reviewer                                                              72

 

THE HOUSE OF DAVID: SALVATION, SCANDAL AND SURVIVAL IN A MODERN AMERICAN COMMUNE

EVELYN STERN

Brian Carroll, Reviewer                                                                         76

 

LOBSANG RAMPA AND OTHER CHARACTERS OF QUESTIONABLE FAITH

B. RUSSELL

Jeremy Genovese, Reviewer                                              80

 

Check This Out!

HOW TO BECOME A CULT LEADER

PETER DINKLAGE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Cheryl Coulthard, Reviewer                                               84

 

MORMONISM

MATTHEW BOWMAN

Charlotte Hansen Terry, Reviewer                                      86

 

SHAKER MADE: INSIDE PLEASANT HILL’S SHAKER VILLAGE

CAROL PEACHEE

Mark Rhorer, Reviewer                                                      88

 

STRANGER IN A STRANGE WORLD

ROBERT HEINLEIN

Stephanie Carpenter, Reviewer                                          90

 

TRUST ME

LOLA BLANC AND MEAGAN ELIZABETH

Susanna Pyatt, Reviewer                                                    93