A 2016 course by Lynn Neal at Wake Forest University examines “the history of specific ‘cults,’ and tackle the methodological and conceptual issues that arise in studying New Religious Movements (NRMs).”
A 2011 course by Grant Martin at Wilfrid Laurier University concerning definition, membership,and issues of “New Religious Movements.”
A 2001 course by Lorne Dawson at the University of Waterloo “is designed to serve two ends: first, to provide an introduction to some of the types of cults or new religious movements (NRMs) active in North America, examining their origins and their basic beliefs and practices; second, to provide an introduction to some of the results of the social scientific study of new religious movements . . . ” with special attention to “Theosophy, Scientology, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (i.e., Hare Krishna), and The Unification Church (i.e., Moonies) in North America.”
A 2007 course by Shawn Krause-Loner at Syracuse University investigates “New Religious Movements (NRMs) largely within the contemporary American context.”
A 2014 course by Lawrence Foster at Georgia Tech University focuses on Charismatic Revival, Nation of Islam, Mormons, and New Age religious movements within the larger context of “new, unorthodox, and persecuted religious groups.”
A course by David Bromley at Virginia Commonwealth University focuses “on groups that emerged during the last half of the twentieth century, New Religious Movements.”
A course by James Kitts at the University of Washington on the “organizational dynamics of new religious movements” with attention to their origins, “recruitment, conversion, and charisma.”
