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The cult wars // Ten years after Jonestown, the battle intensifies over the influence of 'alternative' religions

Title: The cult wars // Ten years after Jonestown, the battle intensifies over the influence of 'alternative' religions
Date: Thursday, 17 November 1988
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Author: Bob Sipchen
Main source: articles.latimes.com
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Eldridge Broussard Jr.'s face screwed into a grimace of such anger and pain that the unflappable Oprah Winfrey seemed unnerved. It hurts to be branded "the new Jimmy Jones" by a society eager to condemn what it doesn't understand, the founder of the Ecclesia Athletic Assn. lamented on TV just a few days after his 8-year-old daughter had been beaten to death, apparently by Ecclesia members. At issue were complex questions of whether the group he had formed to instill discipline ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]