, Ph.D. , is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University Of Alberta in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada . He researches new and alternative Religion s, and has published research on several such groups including the Children Of God / The Family , the Church Of Scientology , and newer Faith s operating in Canada.
- '''', Syracuse University press, 2001, ISBN 0-8156-2948-6
- ''Brainwashing Programs in The Family/Children of God, and Scientology.'' in Zablocki, Benjamin et al.: '''', 2001, ISBN 0-8020-8188-6, 349-378. {Link without Title}
- ''Valentinian Gnoticism and Classical Samkhya--A Thematic and Structural Comparison'', Philosophy East and West 30 no.2 (April, 1980): 241-259.
- ''Puritan Radicalism and the New Religious Organizations: Seventeenthe Century England and Contemporary America'', Comparative Social Research 10, (1987): 3-46.
- ''Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions'' Berliner Dialog Heft 1-97, {Link without Title}
- ''Lustful Prophet: A Psychosexual Historical Study of the Children of God's Leader, David Berg'', Cultic Studies Journal Volume 11 No. 2 : 135-188, 1994 {Link without Title}
- ''Misattribution and Social Control in the Children of God'', Journal of Religion and Health. 33 No.1,: 29-43, 1994 {Link without Title}
- ''Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)'', 1997 {Link without Title}
- ''When Scholars Know Sin'', Skeptic Magazine Vol. 6, No. 3, 1998. {Link without Title}
- ''The Globalization of Scientology'', Religion 29, 1999: 147-169. {Link without Title}
- ''Clarifying Contentious Issues: A Rejoinder to Melton, Shupe, and Lewis'' Skeptic 7 No.1, 1999, 21-26 {Link without Title}
- ''Scientology -- Is this a Religion?'' Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, No. 1, 1999 {Link without Title}
- ''The Creation of 'Religious' Scientology'', Religious Studies and Theology, 18 No. 2, 1999, {Link without Title}
- ''The French and German versus American Debate over 'New Religions', Scientology, and Human Rights'', Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 6, No. 1, 2001 {Link without Title}
- ''Exit Counseling and the Decline of Deprogramming.'', Cultic Studies Review 1 No.3, 2002 {Link without Title}
- ''Generational Revolt by the Adult Children of First-Generation Members of the Children of God/The Family'', Cultic Studies Review 3 No. 1, 2004 {Link without Title}
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