This week, we dive back into the RSP archives to explore conversations about cults and new religious movements. This video aims to disrupt the assumptions about “cults” that students bring to the average 100-level religious studies class. In Part I of Cults & NRMs: An RSP Remix, we address questions like: What is a cult? What is a New Religious Movement? Are cults inherently violent? Be sure to tune in!

• Studying “Cults”, with Eileen Barker (2012)
• Minority Religions and the Law, with Susan J. Palmer and David G. Robertson (2015)
• Millennialism and Violence?, featuring excerpts from Tristan Sturm, Joseph Webster, and Eileen Barker (2017)
• New Directions in the Study of Scientology, with Stephen Gregg (2018)