The cult, the cultic milieu and secularization / Colin Campbell -- Diggers, wolves, ents, elves and expanding universes / Bron Taylor -- The historical communal roots of ultraconservative groups / Timothy Miller -- Neo-shamanism, psychic phenomena and media trickery / László Kürti -- The gothic milieu / Massimo Introvigne -- Black and white unite in fight? / Mattias Gardell -- The idea of purity / Heléne Lööw -- Thriving in a cultic milieu / Frederick J. Simonelli -- The postwar paths of occult national socialism / Jeffrey Kaplan -- The modern anti-cult movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton -- "Who watches the watchman?" / Laird Wilcox.