Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
They say community founders and joiners come from the outside, they who have lost forms of belonging see them as a construct not as a given, they know you have to, that you can, build this. The transition from world user to world builder was a painful one for me, I wouldn’t have ended my intellectual’s meta-existence if it hadn’t been for the gener... See more
The Fog of Change
In it, he folded Christian and psychological categories into a New Thought theme: God’s power could be harnessed by “a spirit and method by which we can control and even determine” life’s circumstances.
Kate Bowler • Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
Is This a Cult?: Confronting the Line between Transformation and Exploitation
amazon.com
The selling of spirituality and personal fulfillment outside houses of worship and therapists’ offices is nothing new in American life, said the historian Natalia Petrzela, an associate professor at the New School who has studied cultural movements.