Regulating Religion.

This chapter focuses on the regulation of religion, particularly religious groups sometimes refer or more neutrally as New Religious Movements. Recent efforts at social control of controversial new religions in the U.S. began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, often involving issues of consumer protection. A consumer protection approach, while not particularly useful in the U.S., has been more successful in countries without formal constitutional protections for religious freedom or which have more paternalistic and protective approaches toward unconventional individual religious experiences.