This week on the lectures and history podcast, a lesson on American cults.

Santa Clara Religious Studies Professor Jim Bennett

takes students through the formation of cults and the history of some of the most notorious in American history.

Class starts right after this.

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next to last class in inventing religion in america and we are finishing up our conversation about the

branch dividians and in particular using uh eugene galliger and and james taber's, Why Waco, to shape our conversation.

As I think I explained at the beginning of the course, or at least the beginning of this

section, since this is one of the three movements that we're spending a lot of time on,

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