by Zoë Pollock
Neuroskeptic notices that no new "notable cults, sects or religions that have sprung up in the past 20 years":
Contrast this to the period from say 1945 to 1990. New groups were springing up all over the place. Scientology; the Hare Krishnas; Transcendental Meditation; the Moonies; Jesus Freaks; the Manson Family; Heaven's Gate; Jonestown; the Kaballah Centre; the Nation of Islam; the New Age; Neopaganism, Wicca… These are all household names. But they all date to, at latest, about 1990. Why haven't there been any more since? The Waco siege was in 1993, but the Branch Davidian group was much older. Was Waco the end of an era?
The Dish 