Suggestions for Further Reading:

The Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind

Arrington, Leonard J., and Bitton, Davis. The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Brewer, Priscilla J. Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1986.

Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bull, Malcolm, and Lockhart, Keith. Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Carden, Maren Lockwood. Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969.

Chmielewski, Wendy E., Kern, Louis J., and Klee-Hartzell, Marlyn, eds. Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Cornwall, Marie, Heaton, Tim B., and Young, Lawrence A., eds. Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Doan, Ruth Alden. The Miller Heresy, Millennialism, and Amencan Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Gaustad, Edwin Scott, ed. The Rise of Adventism. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Gottschalk, Stephen. The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Holloway, Mark. Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880. Rev. ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1966.

Mauss, Armand L. The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Numbers, Ronald L., and Butler, Jonathan M., eds. The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century. 2nd ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Peel, Robert. Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition: Principle, Practice, and Challenge. Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. New York: Crossroad, 1989.

Shipps, Jan. Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Stein, Stephen J. The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Tabor, James D., and Gallagher, Eugene V. Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Troeltsch, Ernst. The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches. 1911. 2 vols. Translated by Olive Wyon. Reprint. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Weber, Max. The Sociology of Religion. 1922. Translated from the 4th ed., rev. (1956) by Ephraim Fischoff. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.