Dealing with the Media Circus: Confessions of a “Cult” Expert

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How to Cite: Boyer, P. (2024). Dealing with the Media Circus: Confessions of a “Cult” Expert. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 52(4), 152-156. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28268

This essay originally appeared in the April 18, 1997 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. It was first reprinted with the permission of the author by the Bulletin for the Study of Religion in issue 27.1 (1998).

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In The Archive, we republish an article that, in hindsight, may have been ahead of its time with its prescience. Our pull for this issue is a reflection by the late Paul Boyer (1935-2012) from 1998 on what it is like to work with the media in the wake of the Heavens Gate suicides because they presume his work in contemporary American belief in biblical prophecy makes him a “cult expert.” This piece was originally published in the April 18, 1997 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education and Bulletin for the Study of Religion 27.1 (1998).

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  • container title
    Bulletin for the Study of Religion
  • copyright status
    Reprinted with permission
  • creator
    Paul Boyer
  • issn
    ISSN: 2041-1871 (Online)
  • issue
    52.4
  • original publisher
    The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 1997)
  • original publisher place
    Washington, D.C.
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • rights
    Chronicle of Higher Education
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.28268