Eastern Philosophy

Max Weber

Quakerism

Ritual Satanic Abuse

Alternative
Religions and Cults

Children of God

Scientology

Book

From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press: 2001.

Articles

"A Matter of Principle: Fundamentalist Polygamy, Children and Human Rights Debates." Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 10
No. 1 (August 2006)

"Education and Re-Education in Ideological Organizations and Their Implications for Children." Cultic Studies Review 4 No. 2 (2005): 119-145.

"Scientific Evaluation of the Dangers Posed by Religious Groups: A Partial Model." Cultic Studies Review 3 No. 2 (2004).

(co-author with Doni Whitsett). "Cults and Families." Families and Society (October-December): 491-502; Reprinted in Cultic Studies Review 3 No. 2 (2004).

"Spiritual Kinship and New Religions." Religious Studies and Theology 22 No.1 (2003):85-100.

(with Joe Szimhart). “Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming.” Cultic Studies Review 1 No.3 (2002); Downloaded from:<http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_issues/csr_toc2002.3.htm> on December 10, 2002.

"Zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Religionen und neuen religiosen Bewegungen." Berliner Dialog Heft 2 (1998): 4-8.

(with Theresa Krebs). "Academic Compromises in the Social Scientific Study of Altertative Religions." Nova Religio 2 No.1 (October, 1998): 44-54.

"Radical Rhetoric and Mystical Religion in America's Late Vietnam War Era." Religion 23 no.1 (January, 1993):45-60.

(second author with Robert H. Cartwright). "Social Control in Alternative Religions: a Familial Perspective." Sociological Analysis. (Winter, 1992): 345-361.

"Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Mertonian Deviance Analysis of Conversion to the Religious Organizations of the Early 1970s." Sociological Analysis 49 no.2 (1988): 104-118; Edited reprint in Sights on the Sixties, edited by Barbara L. Tischler. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

"Deviance Labelling and Normative Strategies in the Canadian 'New Religions/Countercult' Debate," Canadian Journal of Sociology 15 no.4 (1990): 393-416.

Encyclopedia Articles

(co-Author with Susan Raine). "New Religious Movements" Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Ed. E. K. Brown. Volume 8. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 2006: 608-611

"Cults." The Encyclopedia of Sociology, Volume 1. Edited by Edgar F. Borgotta and Marie L. Borgotta. New York: Macmillian, 1992:402-404.

"Freemasonry," Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition. Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, 1988: 845.

"Crimes." The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Edited by William Swatos. London: Alta Mira Press, 1988: 121-122.

"Deviance." The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Edited by William Swatos. London: Alta Mira Press, 1988: 137-139.

"Violence." The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Edited by William Swatos. London: Alta Mira Press, 1998: 540.

(with Melodie Campbell). "UFO/Flying Saucer Cults," The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Edited by William Swatos. London: Alta Mira Press, 1998: 531-532.

Book Chapters

(second author with Gordon Drever). "Gods From Afar," in Edmonton: The Life of a City. Edited by Bob Hesketh and Frances Swyripa. Edmonton: NeWest Press (1995): 275-282.

(coauthor with Charles Hobart). "Religion and Societies," in Introduction to Sociology, 2nd Edition. Edited by David Pierce and Bill Meloff. Scarborough, Ontario: Nelson Canada (1994): 311-339.

"New Religious Movements," in The Sociology of Religion: A Canadian Focus. Edited by Ted Hewitt. New York: Butterworths, 1993: 83-106.

Book Reviews

(co-author with Theresa Krebs). "Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis." Skeptic No.1 (1999):21-26.

Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space. Sociological Analysis 49 no.2 (1988): 197-198. Popular Press:

(co-author with Theresa Krebs). "When Scholars Know Sin: Alternative Religions and their Academic Supporters." Skeptic 6 No.3 (1998): 36-44.