I will be posting syllabi here for courses that I am currently teaching or have taught. I may also in future post here lecture notes and audio or video recordings of my lectures.

Cults and New Religious Movements

I have been teaching this course since the fall of 2018. It has proved to be a popular course at the University of Florida. We review many of the misconceptions and paradoxes that attend the study of “cults” and new religious movements, and review some of the major historical events. We discuss Mormonism, Peoples Temple, Scientology, Hare Krishnas and many other groups. A sample syllabus with readings is here.