Cults, World Religions, and Your Family by Richard Abanes

Cults, World Religions, and Your Family is a good complement to Defending the Faith. Most Christian books on the cults deal first with the two most well-known in this country, the Church of Jesus Christ - Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (the Jehovah's Witnesses), and then cover other smaller, less well known, or newer cults. Abanes examines those two cults last in this book, perhaps assuming that many Christians already know something about those cults but not much about the smaller, newer, and less well-known cults. Since his treatment of these two cults is fairly comparable to other good Christian resources, the unique value of this book is its careful examination of the "minor" cults. This is one of the few Christian cult books available today that covers Scientology, Christian Identity Movement, the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims), and The Family (formerly known as the Children of God). Other chapters are on the more familiar New Age movement, general occultism, satanism, and the Unification Church (the Moonies).

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