In the last half of the 20th century new religious movements or cults of one sort and another mushroomed throughout the US and Europe. Increasingly these groups have been met with attempts to monitor and control them on the part of the state, and concerns about the protection of religious consumers have been set against the democratic right to religious freedom.
In the last half of the 20th century new religious movements or cults of one sort and another mushroomed throughout the US and Europe. Increasingly th...