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Sects & cults constitute a third Christian force, in addition to Protestantism & Roman Catholicism, in the contemporary US. Sects are particularist groups with a basically negative orientation. Cults tend to be positively oriented & to be organized around a Charismatic leader. Any discussion of the various religious groups in the US must take into account the diff's in context, rather than the diff's in content, between them. Religious context largely determines whether or not religious groups are in the mainstream of historical development. The principal distinction between sects or cults & denominations is that sects or cults are established to achieve the spatial & psychic context of isolation. The denominations currently adapt to Me beliefs & values. The sects & cults are uneroded, unexposed, intransigent, & withdrawn. They provide a haven from soc interpenetration & complexity. They do not wish to be assimilated into the mainstream of religious thought & practice. The sects & cults, in almost every particular, provide a counter current in the mid-20th cent religious revival. AA.

Sects and cults constitute a third Christian force, in addition to Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, in contemporary America. Sects are particularist groups with a basically negative orientation. Cults tend to be positively oriented and to be organized around a charismatic leader. Any discussion of the various religious groups in the United States must take into account the differences in context, rather than the differences in content, between them. Religious context largely determines whether or not religious groups are in the mainstream of historical development. The principal distinction between sects or cults and denominations is that sects or cults are established to achieve the spatial and psychic context of isolation. The denominations currently adapt to middle-class beliefs and values. The sects and cults are uneroded, unexposed, intransigent, and withdrawn. They provide a haven from social interpenetration and complexity. They do not wish to be assimilated into the mainstream of religious thought and practice. The sects and cults, in almost every particular, provide a counter current in the mid-twentieth century religious revival.—Ed.

Le groṡ ouvrage que nous présentons n'est autre que la thèse soutenue en Sorbonne le 2 juin 1954 par M. Jean Gagé, maintenant professeur au Collège de France, dont la notoriété était déjà solidement établie par ses travaux antérieurs, notamment ceux concernant les jeux séculaires, la religion augustéenne et les Res Gestae. Il faut se réjouir de constater que, sous l'impulsion de Franz Cumont, les études relatives à la religion romaine se sont multipliées ; les recherches se sont surtout orientées ces dernières années autour de l'évolution de chaque divinité particulière en suivant la voie ouverte en 1926 par M. J. Bayet avec le culte d'Hercule ; M. Gagé nous offre une étude du culte d'Apollon qui vient compléter les ouvrages récents de MM. A. Brühl et R. Schilling sur les cultes de Liber Pater et de Vénus.