Alvin J. SchmidtALVIN J. SCHMIDT is Professor of Sociology at Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL. A former Canadian, he is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Veiled and Silenced: How Culture Shaped Sexist Theology (1989) and Fratenal Organizations (1980) and served as consulting editor for Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and Religions of the Occult (1993).
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