RELIGION IN THE NEWS
Fall 2000, Vol. 3, No. 3

Contents Page,
Vol. 3, No. 3

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to articles in
this issue:

From the Editor: Taking Stock

Preacher Joe

Cult Fighting in Massachusetts

The Mexican Election: Bringing the Church Back In

Rome, Relativism, and Reaction

Waco Redux: Trial and Error

Tibet I: Lama on the Lam

Tibet II: Monastic Spinmeister

The Never Ending Story

Contributors:

Oscar Aguilar Ascencio is a professor of political science at the Centro de Estudios del Ejrcito y Fuerza Aerea in Mexico City.

Ellen Herson Wittmann has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1979. She has taught English and world literature, critical theory, women’s studies, writing, and religion at Princeton University, the University of West Florida, Clark University, and Trinity College.

Stuart A. Wright is Associate Director of Graduate Studies & Research and Professor of Sociology at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Editor of Armageddon in Waco, he testified at the 1995 U.S. House of Representatives hearings on Waco and worked with the Senate Judiciary Committee on its Waco hearings later the same year.