This is my first time on this forum so apologies if I cover old and familiar ground or don’t have much of substance to add. It’s a long and quite seasoned thread, so I am sure readers and contributors have already picked over the story and are very familiar with the terrain. I am coming in at a slight angle to the main narrative here and time-wise my account precedes the main issue, but I do want
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"Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"