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		<title>Secrets of polygamists laid bare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist takes governments to task for not acting against polygamous communities.  The research and Bramham's patient laying out of the facts goes a long way to explaining how a normal society ignores the illegal -- and immoral -- exploitation of children practiced by a messianic cult.]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When describing each phenomenon, J. Gordon Melton's tone whipsaws between critical and credulous, often without obvious justification.]]></description>
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		<title>I’m a Believer: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2001, rumors started to hit the blogosphere that Antony Flew, a British philosopher born in 1923, had found God after six decades of atheism. At first Flew denied the reports. But in May 2004 he told a conference in New York that he had indeed changed his mind and become a believer.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Fear, sex are driving forces within Children of God cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You couldn't beat it for tabloid fodder: Anointed prophet of a secretive evangelical mission-cum-sex cult slits the throat of an ex-nanny, and then kills himself, in protest against the cult leaders, his parents, for years of sex abuse he says he and many other children suffered. And he made a video first.]]></description>
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		<title>Politics of Heaven explains how U.S. got on a fearful track</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did George W. Bush happen? That question has preoccupied the American left for more than six years, producing several shelves of books. Few of the books have been as erudite as Earl Shorris' "The Politics of Heaven."]]></description>
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		<title>Lord, are you there? Didn&#8217;t think so.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultimately, "God Is Not Great" is somewhat of a disappointment -- not so much for those who disagree, who will simply be irritated, but for those of us who think that it has an important case to make and were hoping that this might be the book to carry that message to the people.]]></description>
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		<title>Ronald Hutton: Wicca and other invented traditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 18:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historian Ronald Hutton delights in both debunking and celebrating paganism. His new study of the Druids will probably annoy their modern followers, but Gary Lachman finds him unrepentant.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Failings: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson had both</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McPherson’s “willingness to engage with American culture … ultimately redefined the relationship among social activism, religion, gender, and the media in the United States.” - MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON In 1906 Azusa Street in Los Angeles shook with worshippers who wept, shouted with joy and spoke in tongues as the Holy Spirit moved them. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond belief: &#8220;Strong Religion&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The authors&#8217; technique of explaining fundamentalism in historical and cultural terms enables us to cope with it in the future &#8220;Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World,&#8221; by Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby and Emmanuel Sivan [translated into Hebrew by Zvia Nardi, published by Ben-Gurion University and Yedioth Ahronoth], $19 The era [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Encyclopedia of Protestantism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. 4 vols, acid free $495 (ISBN 0-415-92472- 3). One unique hallmark of Protestantism, clearly evident in this new reference work, is the wide variety and diversity of this major (40 percent of world Christianity) sect. From the snake-handlers of Appalachia to the [...]]]></description>
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