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Study of the religions of North America.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about religions and secular faiths, covering major religions, belief systems, cults, sects, and other related topics.

Factual information about the history, doctrines, and organization of more than 225 religious bodies is arranged alphabetically by denomination. Includes statistical data.

This book examines the beliefs and practices of many of today's "alternative" religious movements: groups and organizations other than the mainstream denominations of the major world religions.

FBI Special Agent and criminal profiler Maggie O'Dell, along with her partner Tully, investigate two cases--the murder of a senator's daughter in Washington, D.C., and a deadly shoot out in Massachusetts--both of which are link to Reverend Joseph Everett, the high-profile leader of a religious sect who is dating Maggie's mother.

Contains alphabetically-arranged profiles of over 1,000 different religions found in the United States and throughout the world.

Traces the history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the present, and discusses the major Christian beliefs and holidays, individual Protestant denominations, and trends in modern Christianity.