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• Barker, Eileen (1983). Of gods and men : new religious movements in the West : proceedings of the 1981 Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Study Group. Macon GA: Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780865540958. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Barker, Eileen (1989). New religious movements : a practical introduction. London: H.M.S.O. ISBN 9780113409273. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Barrett, David V. (1996). Sects, cults, and alternative religions : a world survey and sourcebook. London; New York: Blandford ; Distributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. ISBN 0713725672 9780713725674. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Barrett, David V. (2001). The new believers : a survey of sects, cults, and alternative religions. London; New York, NY: Cassell ; Distributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. ISBN 0304355925 9780304355921 1844030407 9781844030408. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Beckford, James (1986). New religious movements and rapid social change. London ;Beverly Hills, Calif.;Paris, France: Sage Publications ;Unesco. ISBN 9780803980037. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (1993). The illustrated encyclopedia of active new religions, sects, and cults. New York: Rosen Pub. Group. ISBN 0823915050 : 9780823915057. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Bromley, David G. (1981). Strange gods : the great American cult scare. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0807032565 9780807032565. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Bromley, David (1987). The Future of new religious movements. Macon Ga.: Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780865542372. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Cagan, Andrea (2006). Peace is possible : the life and message of Prem Rawat. Dresher, PA: Mighty River Press. ISBN 9780978869496 0978869494. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Chryssides, George D. (2001). Historical dictionary of new religious movements. Historical dictionaries of religions, philosophies, and movements, no. 42. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810840952 9780810840959. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Collier, Sophia (1978). Soul rush : the odyssey of a young woman of the '70s (1st ed. ed.). New York: Morrow. ISBN 9780688032760. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
• Conway, Flo (1995). Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change. New York: Stillpoint Press. ISBN 0964765004 9780964765009. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Divine Light Mission, India (1970). Satgurudev Shri Hans Ji Maharaj: Eternal is He, Eternal is His Knowledge.
• Downton, James V. (1979). Sacred journeys: the conversion of young Americans to Division Light Mission. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231041985 9780231041980. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• DuPertuis, Lucy (1986). "How People Recognize Charisma: The Case of Darshan in Radhasoami and Divine Light Mission". Sociological Analysis. 47 (2): 111–124. ISSN 0038-0210. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
• Edwards, Linda (2001). A brief guide to beliefs : ideas, theologies, mysteries, and movements. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 0664222595 9780664222598. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Fahlbusch, Erwin. (1998). Eerdmans encyclopedia of Christianity. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. ISBN 0802824137 9780802824134. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Foss, Daniel A. (Summer 1978). "Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji". Sociological Analysis. 39 (2): 157–164. doi:10.2307/3710215. ISSN 0038-0210. Retrieved 2008-10-14. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
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• Galanter, Marc (1999). Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195123697 9780195123692 0195123700 9780195123708. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Galanter, Marc (1989). Cults and new religious movements : a report of the American Psychiatric Association. Washington, DC: The Association. ISBN 0890422125 9780890422120. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Galanter, Marc (2002-09-01). "Alcohol & Drug Abuse: Healing Through Social and Spiritual Affiliation". Psychiatr Serv. 53 (9): 1072–1074. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.53.9.1072. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
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• Geaves, Ron (2002), From Totapuri to Maharaji: Reflections on a Lineage (Parampara), paper delivered to the 27th Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, Regents Park College, Oxford, 22–24 March 2002
• Geaves, Ron (2004-03). "From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital and Beyond: An Exploration of Change and Adaptation". Nova Religio. 7 (3): 45–62. Retrieved 2008-10-14. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Geaves, Ron. "Globalization, charisma, innovation, and tradition: An exploration of the transformations in the organisational vehicles for the transmission of the teachings of Prem Rawat (Maharaji)" in Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies - Volume 2, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4196-2696-5, pp. 44-62. Web copy at asanas.org.uk
• Gill, Anthony James (1998). Rendering unto Caesar : the Catholic Church and the state in Latin America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226293831 9780226293837 0226293858 9780226293851. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Glock, Charles Y. (1976). The New religious consciousness. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520030834 : 9780520030831. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Guiley, Rosemary (1991). Harper's encyclopedia of mystical & paranormal experience. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0062503650 : 9780062503657 0062503669 : 9780062503664. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Haan, Wim (Dutch language) De missie van het Goddelijk licht van goeroe Maharaj Ji: een subjektieve duiding from the series Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland: Feiten en Visies nr. 3, autumn 1981 article available in full on the website of the author (PDF file) (The article is mainly based on the Dutch branch of the Divine Light Mission) ISBN 90-242-2341-5
• Hummel, Reinhard (1980). Indische Mission und neue Fro?mmigkeit im Westen. Religio?se Bewegungen Indiens in westl. Stuttgart Berlin Ko?ln Mainz Kohlhammer. ISBN 9783170056091.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hunt, Stephen (2003). Alternative religions : a sociological introduction. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 0754634094 9780754634096 0754634108 9780754634102. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Juergensmeyer, Mark (1991). Radhasoami reality : the logic of a modern faith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691073783 : 9780691073781 0691010927 9780691010922. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Kent, Stephen A. (2001). From slogans to mantras : social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam War era. Religion and politics. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815629230 9780815629238 0815629486 9780815629481. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Khalsa, Kirpal Singh (1986-06). "New Religious Movements Turn to Worldly Success". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 25 (2): 233–247. ISSN 0021-8294. Retrieved 2008-10-14. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Kopkind, Andrew (1995). The thirty years' wars : dispatches and diversions of a radical journalist, 1965-1994. London: Verso. ISBN 1859840965 9781859840962 1859849024 9781859849026. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Kranenborg, R. (1981). De Goddelijke Beginselen en de Verenigingskerk (2). Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland, Nr. 3. Kampen: Kok. ISBN 9024223415 9789024223411. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Langone, Michael D. (1995). Recovery from cults : help for victims of psychological and spiritual abuse. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0393313212 : 9780393313215. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Larson, Bob (2004). Larson's book of world religions and alternative spirituality. Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers. ISBN 084236417X 9780842364171. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Levine, Saul V. in Galanter, Marc (1989). Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association. American Psychiatric Pub., Inc. ISBN 0890422125.
• Lewis, James R. (1998). The encyclopedia of cults, sects, and new religions. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573922226 9781573922227. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Lippy, Charles H. (2002). Pluralism comes of age : American religious culture in the twentieth century. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0765601516 9780765601513. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Mauzy, Diane K. (2002). Singapore politics under the People's Action Party. Politics in Asia series. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415246520 9780415246521 0415246539 9780415246538. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• McGuire, Meredith B. (2002). Religion, the social context. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning. ISBN 0534541267 9780534541262. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• McKean, Lise (1996). Divine enterprise : Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226560090 9780226560090 0226560104 9780226560106. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Melton, J. Gordon. (1986). The encyclopedic handbook of cults in America. Garland reference library of social science, v. 213. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 0824090365 9780824090364. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Melton, J. Gordon (1992). Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America (Rev. and updated ed. ed.). New York [u.a.]: Garland. ISBN 9780815305026. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
• Melton, J. Gordon, Project Director; Lewis, James R., Senior Research Associate (1993), Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains by The Institute for the Study of American Religion {{citation}}: |format= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Melton, J Gordon (1999). Religious leaders of America : a biographical guide to founders and leaders of religious bodies, churches, and spiritual groups in North America (2d ed. ed.). Detroit MI: Gale Research. ISBN 9780810388789. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
• Melton, J. Gordon (2001). Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology. Detroit: Gale Group. ISBN 0810385708 9780810385702 081039488X 9780810394889 0810394898 9780810394896. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Melton, J. Gordon. (2003). Encyclopedia of American religions. Detroit: Gale. ISBN 0787663840 9780787663841. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Michaels, Axel (2004). Hinduism : past and present. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691089523 9780691089522 0691089531 9780691089539. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Miller, Timothy (1995). America's alternative religions. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 9780791423974.
• Olson, Carl (2007). The many colors of Hinduism : a thematic-historical introduction. New Brunswick N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813540672.
• Partridge, Christopher H. (2004). New religions : a guide : new religious movements, sects, and alternative spiritualities. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195220420 9780195220421. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Pilarzyk, Thomas (1978). "The Origin, Development, and Decline of a Youth Culture Religion: An Application of Sectarianization Theory". Review of Religious Research. 20 (1): 23–43. ISSN 0034-673X. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
• Price, Maeve (1979). "The Divine Light Mission as a social organization". Sociological Review. 27: 279–296. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Richardson, James T. (1995). "International Journal for the Psychology of Religion". Sociological Review. 5: 145. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Rudin, A. James (1980). Prison or paradise? : The new religious cults. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. ISBN 080060637X : 9780800606374. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Sadie, Julie Anne (1995). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0393034879 9780393034875. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Smith, Margaret. (1975). The Way out : radical alternatives in Australia. Melbourne: Lansdowne. ISBN 0701804297 : 9780701804299 0701803894 9780701803896. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) "The Divine Light Mission In Australia" by Derek Harper & Michael McDonald
• Stoner, Carroll (1977). All gods' children : the cult experience--salvation or slavery?. Radnor, Pa.: Chilton. ISBN 0801966205 9780801966200. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Sutton, Robert P. (2005). Modern American communes : a dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313321817 9780313321818. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
• Swatos, William H. (1998). Encyclopedia of religion and society. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press. ISBN 0761989560 9780761989561. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• United States.;Kirschner Associates.;Institute for the Study of American Religion. (2001). Religious requirements and practices of certain selected groups : a handbook for chaplains. Honolulu HI: University Press of the Pacific [for] U.S. Dept. of Defense Dept. of the Army Office of the Chief of Chaplains. ISBN 9780898756074.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• van Driel, Barend (1988). "Categorization of New Religious Movements in American Print Media". Sociological Analysis. 49 (2): 171–183. ISSN 0038-0210. Retrieved 2008-10-14. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Wilson, Bryan R. (1992). The social dimensions of sectarianism : sects and new religious movements in contemporary society. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198278837 : 9780198278832. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)

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