Translation of : The Future of Religion : Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation.

The nature of religion -- Of churches, sects, and cults -- The spectrum of faiths -- Religious regionalism -- The eternal exodus : causes of religious dissent and schism -- American-born sect movements -- Sect transformation and upward mobility : the missing mechanisms -- Three models of cult formation -- Cult movements in America : a reconnaissance -- Client and audience cults in America -- Cult membership in the roaring twenties -- Scientology : to be perfectly clear -- The rise and decline of transcendental meditation -- Networks of faith : interpersonal bonds and recruitment to cults and sects -- Friendship, religion, and the occult -- The arithmetic of social movements : theoretical implications -- The "consciousness reformation" reconsidered -- Who joins cult movements? -- Secularization, revival, and cult formation -- Church and cult in Canada -- Europe's receptivity to cults and sects -- Rebellion, repressive regimes, and religious movements.