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Among the topics included in this study of Protestantism's rise and spread in Latin America are the relationship between religion and demography, leadership in the role of church growth, religious conversion and modernisation in Indian communities.

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More than 180 pastors exited the Seventh-Day Adventist ministry in Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1988. This volume examines the processes whereby conservative and committed sectarian pastors began to entertain doubts concerning the sectarian cause, questioned their occupational calling, and turned their backs on the ministry.

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An examination of Smith's Friends, the free church movement. The text explores its character and the reasons for its success.

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The current controversy surrounding new religions has brought to the forefront the role of apostates.

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In this comprehensive study of the Sullivanian movement, the author examines the historical and social processes that resulted in the creation of the Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall Community and its subsequent development into a totalistic community.