About me --

George Chryssides
studied philosophy and theology and the University of Glasgow and obtained his doctorate at Oriel College, Oxford.

He has taught at several British universities, becoming Head of Religious Studies at the University of Wolverhampton in 2001. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow in Contemporary Religion at the University of Birmingham.
George's main research interest is western non-traditional religions, sometimes called New Religious Movements, and popularly known as 'cults' or 'sects'.

His publications include

The Advent of Sun Myung Moon: the Origins, Beliefs and Practices of the
                Unification Church (Macmillan, 1991)

The Elements of Unitarianism (Element, 1998)

Exploring New Religions (Cassell, 1999)

Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (Scarecrow Press, 2001)

A-Z of New Religious Movements (Scarecrow Press, 2005)

Reader in New Religious Movements
                co-edited with Margaret Z. Wilkins (Continuum, 2006)

The Study of Religion: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods
                with Ron Geaves (Continuum, 2007)

Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses (Scarecrow Press, 2008)