ADDRESS/CONTACT INFORMATION

Office Address:

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Virginia Commonwealth University
312 North Shafer Street
Richmond, Virginia 23284-2040

Office Phone/Fax:

(804)-828-6286
(804)-828-1027

Email:

dbromley@www.people.vcu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Sociology:
Duke University, September, 1971

M.A. Sociology:
Duke University, September, 1966

A.B. Sociology:
Colby College, June, 1963
 

FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University:  1983-
Affiliate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University:  1994-
Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia:  1992-
Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia  Commonwealth University:  1983-1986
Head, Department of Sociology, University of Hartford:  1980-1983
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hartford:  1980-1983
Director, Institute for Social Research, University of Hartford:  1980-1983
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Arlington:  1974-1980
Acting Chairman, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Arlington:  1976-1977
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,University of Virginia:  1968-1974

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OFFICES:
 

Editor, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1992-1995

Founding Series Editor, Religion and the Social Order: New Directions in Theory and Research. Published by the Association  for the Sociology of Religion and JAI Press, 1989-

President, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1993-1994

Executive  Council, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1990-1992

Executive Council, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1988-1991

Program Chair, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1986
 

 Publications -- Books:

Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Edited with J. Gordon
Melton)

The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements.    Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. (edited)

Anticult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994 (edited with    Anson Shupe).

The Satanism Scare. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991. 320 pp. (edited with James Richardson    and Joel Best).

Krishna Consciousness in the West. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1988. 290pp. (edited with Larry Shinn).

Falling from the Faith: The Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy. Newbury Park: SAGE    Publications, 1988. 266 pp. (edited)

The Future of New Religious Movements. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1987. 278 pp. (edited with  Phillip Hammond).

New Christian Politics. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1984. 288 pp. (edited with Anson Shupe).

The Brainwashing/Deprogramming Controversy: Historical, Sociological, Psychological and Legal    Perspectives. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984. 368 pp. (edited with James T. Richardson).

Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981 (with Anson Shupe),
249 pp.
Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare. Japanese Edition. Tokyo: Japlan Co., 1987. (with Anson Shupe).

The New Vigilantes: Anti-Cultists, Deprogrammers and the New Religions.  Beverly Hills: SAGE    Publications, 1980. 267 pp. (with Anson Shupe).

"Moonies" in America: Cult, Church and Crusade. Beverly Hills: SAGE Publications, 1979. 270 pp. (with Anson Shupe).
 

"Anti-Cult Movement."  Pp. 27-28 in William Swatos (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira/Sage Publications, 1998. (with Anson Shupe).

"Brainwashing." Pp. 61-62 in William Swatos (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut  Creek, CA: AltaMira/Sage Creek, CA: AltaMira/Sage Publications, 1998. (with Anson Shupe).

"New Religious Movements." Pp. 328-333 in William Swatos (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.  Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira/Sage Publications, 1998.

"Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion." Pp. 252-253 in William Swatos (ed.), Encyclopedia of  Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira/Sage Publications, 1998.

Biographical Entries ("Jeffrey K. Hadden," "Dean M. Kelley," "Thomas Robbins," "Anson Shupe"), Pp. 221-222, 262, 427-428, 467-468) in William Swatos (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira/Sage Publications, 1998.

"The Branch Davidians: A Social Profile and Organizational History." Pp. 149-158 in Timothy Miller    (ed.), America's Alternative Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. (with    Edward Silver).

"Satanism and Satanic Churches: The Contemporary Incarnations." Pp. 401-409 in Timothy Miller (ed.), America's Alternative Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. (with Susan  Ainsley).

"The Evolution of Modern American Anticult Ideology: A Case Study in Frame Extension." Pp. 411-416 in Timothy Miller (ed.), America's Alternative Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press,  1995. (with Anson Shupe).

A Documentary History of the Anti-Cult Movement. University of Texas, Arlington: Institute for Social
Research, 1986. 354 pp. (with Anson Shupe).

The Anti-Cult Movement in America: A Bibliographic and Historical Survey. Volume 2 in Sects and    Cults in America: Bibliographic Guides. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. 169 pp. (with Anson    Shupe and Donna Oliver).
 

Handbook on Cults and Sects in America. 2 volumes. Greenwich: Association for the Sociology of  Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and JAI Press, 1993. (edited with Jeffrey K.  Hadden).

New Perspectives in the Study of Religion. Religion and the Social Order, Volume I. Greenwich, CT:    Association for the Sociology of Religion and JAI Press, 1991. 281 pp.

Sociological Analysis. Special Presidential Issue. "Religion, Economics and Society." 49 (December, 1988)  (edited with James Richardson).

Series Editor for Religion and the Social Order, a publication of the Association for the Sociology of  Religion and JAI Press:

New Perspectives in the Study of Religion, edited by David G. Bromley (1991)

Vatican II and U.S. Catholicism, edited by Helen Rose Ebaugh (1991)

Cults and Sects in America, edited by David G. Bromley and Jeffrey K. Hadden (1993)

Between Sacred and Secular: Research and Theory on Quasi-Religion Movements, edited by Arthur Greil and Thomas Robbins (1994)

Sex, Lies, and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance in Contemporary North America, edited by Mary Jo Neitz and Marion Goldman (1995)

The Issue of Authenticity in the Study of Religions, edited by Lewis Carter (1996)

Leaving Religion and Religious Life: Patterns and Dynamics, edited by Mordechai Bar-Lev and William Shaffir (1997).
 

“Dramatic Dénouments.” In David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton (eds.), Cults, Religion, and
Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. (With J. Gordon Melton)

“Lessons from the Past, Perspective for the Future.” In David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton (eds.),Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. (With J. Gordon Melton)

“Violence and Religion in Perspective.” In David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton (eds.), Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. (With J. Gordon Melton)

“Challenging Misconceptions about the New Religions-Violence Connection.” In David G. Bromley and  J. Gordon Melton (eds.), Cults, Religion, and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. (With J. Gordon Melton)

 "The Social Construction of Contested Exit Roles: Defectors, Whistleblowers, and Apostates." Pp. 19-48 in David G. Bromley (ed.), The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998.

"Transformative Movements and Quasi-Religious Corporations: The Case of Amway." Pp. 349-363 in  N.J. Demerath, III, Peter Dobkin Hall, Terry Schmitt, Rhys H. Williams (eds.), Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

"Disclaimers and Accounts in Cases of Catholic Priests Accused of Pedophilia." In Anson Shupe (ed.),
Wolves Among the Fold: White Collar Crime from the Pulpit. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. (with James Thomson and Joseph Marolla)

"Constructing Apocalypticism: Social and Cultural Elements of Radical Organization." Pp. 31-46 in  Thomas Robbins and Susan Palmer (eds.), Millennium, Messiah, and Mayhem. New York: Routledge, 1997.

"The Process of Exiting New Religious Movements." Pp. 31-60 in William Shaffir and Motti Bar Lev    (eds.), Leaving Patterns of Religious Life: Cross Cultural Perspectives. Greenwich, CT: Association for the Sociology of Religion and JAI Press, 1997.

"La Mythologie des Sectes." Pp. 127-134 in Massimo Introvigne and J. Gordon Melton, eds., Pour En  Finif Avec Les Sectes. Turin: CESNUR - Di Giovanni, 1996.

"The Davidian Tradition: From Patronal Clan to Prophetic Movement." Pp. 43-74 in Stuart Wright  (ed.), Armageddon(ed.), Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. (with Edward Silver).

"Quasi-Religious Corporations: The Reintegration of Capitalism and Religion." Pp. 135-160 in Richard Roberts (ed.), Religion and the Resurgence of Capitalism. London: Routledge, 1995.

"The Modern American Anti-Cult Movement: A Twenty Year Retrospective." Pp. 3-32 in Anson Shupe and David Bromley (eds.), Anticult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994. (with Anson Shupe).

"Constructing Subversion: A Comparison of Anti Religions Anti Satanic Narratives." Pp. 49-76 in Anson Shupe and David G. Bromley (eds.), Anti-Cult Movements in Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994.

"The Family Lifestyle: History, Ideology, Organization." Pp. 41-46 in James Lewis and J. Gordon Melton (eds), Sex, Sin, and Salvation: Investigating The Family/Children of God." Stanford: Center for Academic Publication, 1994. (with Sidney Newton).

"The Satanism Scare in the United States." Pp. 49-64 in Jean-Baptiste Martin and Massimo Introvigne, eds., Le Defi Magique -- Spiritisme, Satanisme, Occultisme dans Les Societes Contemporaines, Volume II (Satanisme, Sorcellerie). Lyon, France: Presses Universitaires De Lyon, 1994.

"The Mythology of Cults." Pp. 121-124 in James Lewis (ed.), From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco.    New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994.

"The Role of Government in Regulating New and Unconventional Religions," Pp. 101-137 in James  Wood (ed.), Governmental Monitoring of Religion. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1992 (with Thomas Robbins).

"Satanism: the New Cult Scare." Pp. 49-72 in James T. Richardson, Joel Best and David G. Bromley    (eds.), The Satanism Scare. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991.

"Satanism as a Social Problem." Pp. 1-12 in James T. Richardson, Joel Best and David G. Bromley   (eds.), The Satanism Scare. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991 (with James Richardson and    Joel Best).

"Rebottling the Elixir: The Gospel of Prosperity in America's Quasi-Religious Corporations." Pp. 233-   254 in Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony (eds.), In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious    Pluralism in America. Rutgers: Transaction Press, 1990. (with Anson Shupe).

"Deep Structures in Post-War American Religious Conflict." Pp. 127-150 in Joseph Gittler (ed.), Annual Review of Conflict Knowledge and Conflict Resolution. New York: Garland Publishers, 1990. (with Anson Shupe and Bruce Busching).

"The Public Reaction to Cults." Pp. 305-334 in Marc Galanter (ed.), Cults and New Religious Movements. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1989. (with Anson Shupe).

"The Legacy of Jonestown and the Development of the Anti-Cult Movement." Pp. 153-178 in Rebecca  Moore and Fielding McGehee (eds.), Jonestown: A Ten Year Retrospective. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen    Press, 1989. (with Anson Shupe and Edward Breschel).

"Economic Structure and Charismatic Leadership in the Unificationist Movement." Pp. 335-364 in James Richardson (ed.), Money and Power in the New Religions. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

"Perspectives on ISKCON as a New Religious Movement." Pp. 13-34 in David G. Bromley and Larry   Shinn (eds.), Krishna Consciousness in the West. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1988. (with    Larry Shinn).

"ISKCON and the Anti-Cult Movement." Pp. 252-289 in David G. Bromley and Larry Shinn (eds.),    Krishna Consciousness in the West. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1988.

"Disaffiliation as a Neglected Social Process." Pp. 9-25 in David G. Bromley (ed.), Falling From the    Faith. Newbury Park: SAGE Publications, 1988.

"Another Look at Conversion and Defection in Conservative Churches." Pp. 47-61 in David G. Bromley (ed.), Falling From the Faith. Newbury Park: SAGE Publications, 1988. (with Lynn Nelson).

"Deprogramming as a Mode of Exit from New Religious Movements: The Case of the Unificationist    Movement." Pp. 166-184 in David G. Bromley (ed.), Falling From the Faith. Newbury Park: SAGE    Publications, 1988.

"The Future of the Anti-Cult Movement." Pp. 221-234 in David G. Bromley and Phillip E. Hammond    (eds.), The Future of New Religious Movements. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1986. (with Anson Shupe).

"Reflections on the Study of New Religious Movements." Pp. 210-220 in David G. Bromley and Phillip  E. Hammond (eds.), The Future of New Religious Movements. Macon: Mercer University Press,    1986. (with Jeffrey Hadden and Phillip Hammond).

"A Recent History of the Future of New Religious Movements." Pp. 1-10 in David G. Bromley and    Phillip  E. Hammond (eds.), The Future of New Religious Movements. Macon: Mercer University    Press, 1986. (with Phillip Hammond).

"Cults, Crusaders and the Constitution." Pp. 167-186 in Ray Browne (ed.), Taboos and the Constitution. Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 1986.

"Reactions to New Religious Movements," in Phillip Hammond (ed.), The Sacred in a Post-Secular Age.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. (with Anson Shupe).

"Conservatorships and Deprogramming: Legal and Political Prospects." Pp. 267-294 in David G. Bromley and James T. Richardson (eds.), The Brainwashing/Deprogramming Controversy: Sociological, Psychological, Legal and Historical Perspectives. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984.

"The Role of Anecdotal Atrocities in the Social Construction of Evil." Pp. 139-160 in David G. Bromley and James T. Richardson (eds.), The Brainwashing / Deprogramming Controversy: Sociological,    Psychological, Legal and Historical Perspectives. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984. (with Anson    Shupe and Joseph Ventimiglia).

"Interpreting the New Christian Right: A Commentary on the Substance and Process of Knowledge    Creation," Pp. 1-16 in David G. Bromley and Anson Shupe (eds.), New Christian Politics.  Macon:     Mercer University Press, 1984. (with Anson Shupe).

"Speak No Evil: Word Taboos among Scottish Fisherman," Pp.183-192 in Ray Browne (ed.), Forbidden Fruit: Taboos in American Culture. Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 1984. (with Edward Knipe).

"Repression and the Decline of Social Movements."  Pp. 335-347 in Jo Freeman (ed.), Social Movements of the 1960's and the 1970's. San Francisco: Longman Publishers, 1983. (with Anson Shupe).

"A Comparison of the Anti-Cult Movements in the United States and West Germany."  Pp. 177-194 in  Eileen Barker (ed.), Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West.  Macon: Mercer    University Press, 1983. (with Bert Hardin and Anson Shupe).

"The Archetypal Cult: Conflict and the Social Construction of Deviance."  Pp. 1-22 in Gene James (ed.), The Family and the Unification Church. New York: Rose of Sharon Press, 1983. (with Anson Shupe).

"The Unification Church and the American Family: Strain, Conflict and Control."  Pp. 302-311 in Eileen
 Barker (ed.), New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1982. (with Bruce Busching and Anson Shupe).

"Numerological Fetishism in American Culture." Pp. 270-282 in Ray Browne (ed.), Fetishes and    Fetishism in Popular Culture. Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 1982.

"Shaping the Public Response to Jonestown: The People's Temple and the Anti-Cult Movement."  Pp. 105-132 in Kenneth Levy (ed.), Violence and Religious Commitment.  State College: Pennsylvania  State University Press, 1981. (with Anson Shupe).

"Dynakik zwischen Ideologie und sozialer Organisation in sozialen Bewegungen: Der Fall der    Unifikatorischen Bewegung." Pp. 109-128 in Gunter Kehrer (Hrsg.), Das Entstehen einer neuen    Religion: Das Beispiel der Bereinigungskirche. Munchen: Kosel-Verlag, 1981. (with Anson Shupe)

"Apostates and Atrocity Stories: Some Parameters in the Dynamics of Deprogramming."  Pp. 179-216  in Bryan Wilson (ed.), The Social Impact of New Religious Movements.  New York: Rose of Sharon    Press, 1981. (with Anson Shupe).

"The Role of Metaphor in the Rituals of Restorative and Transformative Groups."  Pp. 48-60 in Ray    Browne (ed.), Ceremony and Ritual in America. Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 1981. (with    Joseph Bastien).

"Evolving Foci in Participant Observation: Research as an Emergent Process."  Pp. 191-202 in William
Shaffir, Alan Turowetz and Robert Stebbins (eds.), The Social Experience of Fieldwork.  New York:    St. Martin's Press, 1980. (with Anson Shupe).

 Publications -- Articles in Journals and Serials:

"Linking Social Structure and the Exit Process in Religious Organizations: Defectors, Whistleblowers, and Apostates." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1998).

"Listing (in Black and White) Some Observations on (Sociological) Thought Reform." Nova Religio  1 (1998): 250-266.

"Locating the Corporal Punishment Debate in the Context of Conflicting Forms of Social Relations."  (1998). (with Clinton Cress).

"A Sociological Narrative of Crisis Episodes, Collective Action, Culture Workers, and    Countermovements." Sociology of Religion 58 (1997): 105-140.

"Anti-Cultism in the United States: Origins, Ideology and Organizational Development." Social Compass 42 (1995): 221-236. (with Anson Shupe).

"Satanisme: de Nieuwe Cult Angst." Religieuze Bewegningen in Nederland. (December, 1993) (Dutch).

"New Religious Movements in the United States." Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions. 83 (July-September, 1993): 91-106 (with Thomas Robbins).
"Research on New Religious Movements: A Bibliography." Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions.    83 (July-September, 1993): 107-125 (with Thomas Robbins).

"What Have We Learned About New Religions: New Religious Movements as Experiments." Religious Studies Review 19 (July 1993): 209-216. (with Thomas Robbins).

"Exploring the Significance of Sects and Cults in America: Perspectives, Issues and Agendas." Pp. 1-48 in David G. Bromley and Jeffrey K. Hadden (eds.), Handbook on Cults and Sects in America. Greenwich: Association for the Sociology of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and JAI Press, 1993. (with Jeffrey Hadden).

"New Religions and Countermovements." Pp. 177-198 in David G. Bromley and Jeffrey K. Hadden (eds.), Handbook on Cults and Sects in America. Greenwich: Association for the Sociology of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and JAI Press, 1993 (with Anson Shupe).

"State Regulation of Marginal Religious Movements." Syzygy: A Journal of Alternative Religion and Culture, 2 (1993): 225-242 (with Thomas Robbins).

"Social Experimentation and the Significance of American New Religions: A Focused Review Essay."  Pp. 1-28 in Monty Lynn and David Moberg (eds.), Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1992. (with Thomas Robbins).

"General Population and Institutional Elite Perceptions of Cults: Evidence from National Survey Data." Behavioral Sciences and the Law. Special Issue on "Cults and the Law." 10 (1992): 39-52. (with Edward F. Breschel).

"The Satanic Cult Scare." Society (May/June, 1991): 1-11.

"Unraveling Religious Disaffiliation: The Meaning and Significance of Falling from the Faith." Counseling and Values 36 (1991): 164-185.

"Problems and Prospects in the Study of Religion." Pp. 1-16 in David G. Bromley (ed.), New    Perspectives in the Study of Religion. Volume I of Religion and the Social Order. Greenwich: JAI    Press, 1991.

"Implications of New Religious Movements for the Sociology of Religion." Pp. 181-203 in David G.    Bromley (ed.), New Perspectives in the Study of Religion. Volume I of Religion and the Social Order.    Greenwich: JAI Press, 1990. (with Thomas Robbins).

"I Nuovi Culti E I Loro Oppositori." Quaderni Di Schema (Tensioni E Tendenze Dell'America Reagan) 2 (1989): 113-142. (with Anson Shupe).

"Understanding the Structure of Contractual and Covenantal Social Relations: Implications for the    Sociology of Religion." Sociological Analysis 49 (1988): 15-32 (with Bruce Busching).

"Cult Information Disease: A Misattribution of Cause?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
 26 (December, 1987): 508-522. (with James Lewis).

"Religion, Health and Healing: Findings from a Southern City." Sociological Analysis 47 (Spring, 1986): 66-73. (with Daniel Johnson and J. Sherwood Williams).

"Affiliation and Disaffiliation: A Role Theory Approach to Joining and Leaving New Religious    Movements." Thought: A Review of Culture and Ideas  61 (June, 1986): 197-211. (with Anson Shupe).

"The Economic Structure of the Unificationist Movement." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion  24 (September, 1985): 253-274.

Reprinted, Pp. 305-334 in James Richardson (ed.), Money and Power in the New Religions. Lewiston:    Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

"Perfect Families: Visions of the Future in a New Religious Movement."  Marriage and Family Review  4 (Fall, 1981): 119-130. (with Anson Shupe and Donna Oliver).

Reprinted, Pp. 119-130 in Florence Kaslow and Marvin B. Sussman, (eds.), Cults and the Family.  New  York: The Haworth Press, 1982.

"Repression of Cults."  Pp. 25-64 in Louis Kriesberg (ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1982. (with Bruce Busching and Anson Shupe).

"Reverse Missionizing: Sun Myung Moon's Unificationist Movement in the United States."  Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 8 (November, 1980): 227-238. (with Anson Shupe).

"Financing the New Religions: A Resource Mobilization Approach." Journal for the Scientific Study of
Religion 19 (September, 1980): 197-203. (with Anson Shupe).

"Walking a Tightrope: Dilemmas of Participant Observation of Groups in Conflict." Qualitative Sociology 2 (January, 1980): 3-21. (with Anson Shupe).

Reprinted in Nancy Herman and Larry Reynolds (eds.), Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, 1994.

Reprinted in Nancy Herman (ed.), Social Psychology. New York: General Hall Publishers, 1993.

Reprinted in Richard Schaefer and Robert Lamm (eds.), Introducing Sociology: A Collection of Readings. New York: McGraw Hill, 1987.

Reprinted in John Stimson and Ardyth Stimson (eds.), Sociology: Contemporary Introductory Readings. Itasca: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1983.

"The Moonies and the Anti-Cultists: Movement and Counter-Movement in Conflict."  Sociological    Analysis 40 (Winter, 1979): 325-334. (with Anson Shupe).

Reprinted in Ralph Turner and Lewis Killian, Collective Behavior (3rd. edition). New York: Prentice-   Hall, Inc, 1987.

Reprinted, Pp. 229-242 in James Wood and Maurice Jackson (eds.), Social Movements: Development, Participation and Dynamics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1982.

  "The Tnevnoc Cult." Sociological Analysis 40 (Winter, 1979): 361-66. (with Anson Shupe).

Reprinted in Leonard Cargan, Sociological Footprints. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1985.

Reprinted in Patrick McNamara, Introduction to Sociology. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1984.

Reprinted in Serge Denisoff and Ralph Wahrman, An Introduction to Sociology. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

Reprinted in Phillip Whitten (ed.), Readings in Sociology: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.

Reprinted in David K. Hunter and Phillip Whitten (eds.), An Introduction to Sociology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.

Reprinted in Ray Browne (ed.), Ceremony and Ritual in America. Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 1980.

Reprinted in Judson Landis, Sociology: Concepts and Characteristics. Belmont: Wadsworth Publisher, 1979.

"Atrocity Tales, the Unification Church, and the Social Construction of Evil."  Journal of Communication 29 (Summer, 1979): 42-53. (with Anson Shupe).

"Just a Few Years Seem Like a Lifetime: A Role Theory Perspective on Conversion to a Marginal    Religious Group."  Pp. 169-196 in Louis Kriesberg (ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflict and  Change. JAI Press, 1979. (with Anson Shupe).

"Continuities in American Religion: Witches, Moonies and Accusations of Evil."  Society 15 (May/June,  1978): 75-76. (with Anson Shupe).

Expanded version, Pp. 247-262 in Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony (eds.), In God We Trust: New    Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America.  Rutgers: Transaction Press, 1981.

"Sources of Non-Medicinal Drug Use: A Test of the Drug Oriented Society Explanation."  Journal of    Health and Social Behavior, 16 (July, 1975): 60-62. (with Bruce Busching).

 Forthcoming Publications / Work in Progress:

Prophetic Religion in a Secular Age. 2001.

Religion as Therapy, Therapy as Religion: The Church of Scientology as a Quasi-Religious Therapy."    In William Zellner and Marc Petrowsky (eds.), Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1998. (with Mitchell Bracey).

The Social Construction of Subversive Evil: The Contemporary Anti-Cult and Anti-Satanism Movements.    In Jo Freeman (ed.), Social Movements of the Eighties and Nineties. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. (With Diana Gay Cutchin).

"Violent Rape as Edgework: Constructing an Edge through Domination and Resistance." In Stephen  Lyng (ed.), Negotiating the Edge: Deviance and the Risk Taking Experience, 1999.

"Creating a Sexual Edge: Seeking Individual Transcendence through Sadomasochism." In Stephen Lyng  (ed.), Negotiating the Edge: Deviance and the Risk Taking Experience, 1999. (with Riiste Challis).

"A Tale of Two Theories: Reframing the Conversion -- Brainwashing Debate." In Bejamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (eds.), Misunderstanding Cults. University of Tonronto Press, 1999.
 

 Publications -- Books

White Racism and Black Americans. Boston: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1972. 662 pp. (edited with   Charles Longino).

 Publications -- Monographs, Book Chapters:

"Homelessness in Virginia: Dimensions of the Problem and the Public Reaction." Pp. 233-250 in Jamshid Momeni (ed.), Homelessness in the United States, Volume I. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988.  (with Daniel Johnson, David Hartman and Alexis Ruffin).

Refugee Mental Health in Virginia: Needs Assessment and Guidelines for Planning. Richmond: Survey
Research Laboratory, 1986. 110 pp. (with Judith Bradford and Horus Alkebu-Lan).

The Chicano in an Urban Setting: A Challenge to the University and the Community. Arlington: The
Institute of Urban Studies and Center for Social Research, 1978. 50 pp. (edited with Scott Cummings    and James Cornehls).

"Power, Politics and Decision Making." Pp. 460-561 in Kent Schwirian (ed.), Contemporary Topics in    Urban Sociology. Morristown: General Learning Press, 1977.
 

"Changes in the Coincidence of the Boundaries and Population of Central Cities." Social Forces 57
(March, 1979): 931-951. (with Joel Smith and Kenneth Manton).

"The Changing Political Structure of American Suburbs, 1940-1960." International Review of History and Political Science 16 (May, 1979): 39-52.

"The Historical Significance of Annexation as a Social Process." Land Economics 49 (August, 1973):
294-309. (with Joel Smith).

"Inter-City Comparisons of Mass Transit for Commutation." Virginia Social Science Journal 8 (July,
1973): 47-53. (with Michael Demetsky).

"Some Differences in the Political Socialization Patterns of Canadian and American Party Officials: A
Preliminary Report." Canadian Journal of Political Science 2 (March, 1969): 64-88. (with Allan    Kornberg and Joel Smith).

Reprinted in Jack Dennis (ed.), Socialization to Politics: A Reader. New York: John Wiley, 1973.

Reprinted in William Wright (ed.), Party Organization: A Comparative Reader. Columbus: Charles
Merrill, 1971.

"Patterns of Early Political Socialization and Adult Party Affiliation."  The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 5 (1968): 123-155. (with Allan Kornberg and Joel Smith).
 

Publications -- Monographs:

A Descriptive Assessment of Recent Community College Enrollment Changes. Richmond: Survey Research    Laboratory, 1986. 100 pp. (with Daniel Johnson).

"Methodological Quagmires in Studying New Religious Movements." In Keith A. Roberts, The Sociology of Religion Belmont: Wadsworth Publishers, 1994. (with Sidney Newton).

"Scholastic Dishonesty Among College Undergraduates: Parallel Tests of Two Sociological Explanations." Youth and Society 13 (September, 1981): 3-22. (with Raymond Eve).

"Evaluation Practices: A Study of College Grading Using Normative and Utilitarian Orientation."     Teaching Sociology 8 (July, 1981): 423-441.

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