Bibliography of Prem Rawat and related organizations
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Bibliography of Prem Rawat and related organizations lists bibliographical material regarding Prem Rawat
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

 and organizations like Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

, Elan Vital
Elan Vital (organization)
Elan Vital is the name of several organizations that support the work of Prem Rawat, also known by the honorary title "Maharaji". Prem Rawat speaks of the possibility of knowing inner peace through four techniques of Knowledge. Elan Vital organizations exist in several countries with the purpose of...

 and The Prem Rawat Foundation.

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  • Except in verbatim quotations (of titles etc.) Prem Rawat
    Prem Rawat
    Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

     is always listed under that name in the columns below, whatever the dominant alternative name (Guru Maharaj Ji, Maharaji,...) at the time of the publication.
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Author(s)DateTypeTitlePublished in/byPlaceRawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1970-11-08 Public address Peace Bomb satsang And It Is Divine (transcript: 1972)
The Golden Age (transcript: 1978)
India, Delhi
U.S. (1972)
Australia (1978)
1970-11-09 Article (newspaper) Hindustan Times India
1970-11-10 Article (newspaper) Navbharat Times India
1970 Book (part) Guinness Book of World Records Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of nonfiction titles, with more than 5,000 books in print. Founded in 1949, it publishes a wide range of nonfiction and illustrated titles in categories which include art, biography/autobiography, body/mind/spirit, crafts, culinary, do-it-yourself,...

U.S.
1971-06-17 Article (newspaper) Hallelujah! The mini Guru, aged 13, cometh Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...

UK, London
1971-06-18 Article (newspaper) Worshippers greet the boy guru 'straight from Heaven' Daily Mirror UK, London p. 12
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1971-06 Public address Glastonbury Festival address Glastonbury Fayre
Glastonbury Fayre
Glastonbury Fayre is a 1972 documentary film directed by Nicolas Roeg and Peter Neal of the 1971 Glastonbury Festival which was held on 20–24 June 1971.-About the film:...

(footage: 1972)
UK, Glastonbury
Glastonbury
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,784 in the 2001 census...


UK (footage)
1971-08-02 Article (magazine) Boy Guru Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

U.S. p. 72
Allen, Henry 1971-09-14 Article (newspaper) Pretty Far-Out Little Dude The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

U.S., Washington, D.C. p. B1
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1971-09-17 Public address Colorado Satsang Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? (transcript: 1973) U.S., Colorado
1970s Magazine Divine Times Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

U.S.
1970s(–) Periodical The Divine Times Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

UK
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1972 Book Reflections on an Indian Sunrise Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

Ashokanand (mahatma)
Sandoz, Jaques (directors)
1972 Film (documentary) Satguru Has Come Shri Hans Films
1972-10-23 Article (newspaper) Pilgrims jet to see Divine Light The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

UK, London p. 12
1972-11-09 Article (newspaper) Guru's 'Bank' Seized Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

(Reuters)
U.S., Los Angeles p. A15
1972-11-19 Article (newspaper) India investigates guru's finances The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

(AP)
UK, London p. 8
1972-11-27 Article (magazine) Junior Guru TIME
Time
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U.S.
Daniel, Leon 1972-12-10 Article (newspaper) 15-Year-Old Hottest Star of Guru Circuit Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. C8
1970s Magazine And It Is Divine Shri Hans Productions
Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

U.S.
Blue Aquarius
(Bhole Ji et al.)
1973 Album (music) Blue Aquarius Stax
Stax Records
Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and...

: Gospel Truth Series
U.S. GTS-2725
1973-02-03 Article (newspaper) Guru's Pupil Slates Talk Syracuse Post-Standard U.S. p. 3
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1973-04-01 Article (magazine)
Film
DUO proclamation and satsang Divine Times Vol. II No. 6 by Shri Hans Productions (DLM)
(film:) Shri Hans Films
U.S., Denver, Colorado
1973-08–
1973-09
Magazine Divine Light News Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

Australia Vol. I, Nos. 1-3
1973-08-08 Article (newspaper) Guru Gets Testimonial And Some Pie in Face New York Times U.S., New York p. 43
1973-08-08 Article (newspaper) 15-Year Old Guru Slapped in Face by Shaving Cream Pie Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

(UPI)
U.S., Los Angeles p. 2
1973-08-08 Article (newspaper) Guru Set For Honor, Gets Pie In Face Independent
Press-Telegram (UPI)
U.S., Long Beach, California p. A-6
1973-09-03 Article (newspaper) Guru Maharaj Ji: Ulcer The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

U.S., Washington, D.C. p. B7
1973-09-04 Article (newspaper) The 'Perfect Master' from India has an ulcer Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes (newspaper)
Stars and Stripes is a news source that operates from inside the United States Department of Defense but is editorially separate from it. The First Amendment protection which Stars and Stripes enjoys is safeguarded by Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests,...

(AP)
U.S. p. 6
Carter, Malcolm N. 1973-09-23 Article (newspaper) Guru Keeps Track Of Subjects With Computer Great Bend Tribune (AP) U.S., Kansas p. 11
Milner, Bart 1973-09-23 Article (newspaper) Casting some shadows on the movement of Divine Light The Times UK, London
1973 Film Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji Shri Hans Productions U.S.
Cameron, Charles
Davis, Rennie
Rennie Davis
Rennard Cordon “Rennie” Davis is a former, prominent American anti-Vietnam War protest leader of the 1960s. He was one of the Chicago Seven....


Rawat, Prem
et al.
1973-11 Book Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? Bantam Books
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...

U.S.
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


Griffin, Merv
Merv Griffin
Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. was an American television host, musician, actor, and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway. From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show on Group W Broadcasting...

1973-11-28 TV show (interview) The Merv Griffin Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to September 26, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in...

U.S.
Morgan, Ted 1973-12-09 Article Oz in the Astrodome: Middle-class premies find Guru The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...

U.S., New York Section 6, pp. 37–39, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 104
Du Plessix Gray, Francine
Francine du Plessix Gray
-Biography:She was born September 25, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attaché. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family influenced her...


Kelley, Ken
1973-12-13 Article (magazine) Blissing out in Houston (du Plessix Gray)
Blackjack Love (Kelley)
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...

Vol. 20 No. 20
U.S., New York pp. 36–43
Winder, Gail
Horowitz, Carol
1973-12 Article (magazine) What's Behind the 15-Year-Old Guru Maharaj Ji? The Realist
The Realist
The Realist was a pioneering magazine of "social-political-religious criticism and satire," intended as a hybrid of a grown-ups version of Mad and Lyle Stuart's anti-censorship monthly The Independent. Edited and published by Paul Krassner, and often regarded as a milestone in the American...

No. 97-C
U.S., San Francisco, California pp. 1–5
Latimer, Dean 1974-01 Article (magazine) Who is Guru Maharaj Ji and why is he saying all these terrible things about God? Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...

Vol. 5 No. 5
U.S. pp. 65–66
Kelley, Ken 1974-01-19 Article (newspaper) Get Your Red-Hot Panaceas! New York Times U.S., New York p. 31
Du Plessix Gray, Francine
Francine du Plessix Gray
-Biography:She was born September 25, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attaché. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family influenced her...


Kelley, Ken
Apter, Joan
et al.
1974-01-24 Article (magazine) Knowledge of the Guru, replies to Joan Apter and to Nicholas B. Dirks, Charles R. D. Lindley, Leela A. Wood The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...

Vol. 20 Nos. 21 & 22
U.S., New York
Kelley, Ken 1974-02 Article (magazine) Over the hill at 16 Ramparts
Ramparts (magazine)
Ramparts was an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975.-History:Founded by Edward M. Keating as a Catholic literary quarterly, the magazine became closely associated with the New Left after executive editor Warren Hinckle hired Robert Scheer as managing editor...

No. 12
U.S. pp. 40–44
Goldsmith, Paul
Traum, Artie
Artie Traum
Artie Traum was a New Age Voice Award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter. Traum's work appeared on more than 35 albums...

1974-02 Article (magazine) Bliss and Bones in the Astrodome Crawdaddy U.S. pp. 62–65
Adler, Dick 1974-02-23 Article (newspaper) TV Review: Videotape Explorers on Trail of a Guru Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. B2
Shamberg, Michael
Michael Shamberg
Michael Shamberg is an American former Time-Life correspondent and current film producer.-Life and career:His credits include Erin Brockovich, A Fish Called Wanda, Garden State, Gattaca, Pulp Fiction and The Big Chill...

 (dir.)
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


Davis, Rennie
Rennie Davis
Rennard Cordon “Rennie” Davis is a former, prominent American anti-Vietnam War protest leader of the 1960s. He was one of the Chicago Seven....


et al.
1974-02-24 Film (documentary) Lord of the Universe
Lord of the Universe
Lord of the Universe is a 1974 American documentary film about Prem Rawat at an event in November 1973 at the Houston Astrodome called "Millennium '73". Lord of the Universe was first broadcast on PBS on February 2, 1974, and released in VHS format on November 1, 1991...

Top Value Television U.S.
O'Connor, John J. 1974-02-25 Article (newspaper) TV: Meditating on Young Guru and His Followers: Maharaj Ji Is Focus of P.B.S. Documentary: Astrodome Gathering Yields Splendid Show New York Times U.S., New York p. 53
Kelley, Ken 1974-03 Article (magazine) An East Indian Teen-Ager Says He Is God Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

U.S.
Elman, Richard 1974-03 Article (magazine) Godhead Hi-Jinx: Starring the Guru Maharaj Ji Creem
Creem
Creem , "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine," was a monthly rock 'n' roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. It suspended production in 1989 but received a short-lived renaissance in the early 1990s as a glossy tabloid...

U.S. p. 37-39
1974-03–
1979-10
Magazine The Golden Age Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...


Duo Productions
Australia Vol. 1-55
Levine, Richard 1974-03-14 Article (magazine) When The Lord of All The Universe Played Houston: Many are called but few show up Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

No. 156
U.S. pp. 36–50
Gortner, Marjoe
Marjoe Gortner
Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, generally known as Marjoe Gortner , is a former revivalist who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four...

1974-05 Article (magazine) Who Was Guru Maharaj Ji? Just think of him as a spare tire Oui
Oui (magazine)
Oui is a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the USA and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons.- Playboy years :...

U.S. pp. 90–133
Scheer, Robert
Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...

1974-06 Article (magazine) Death of the Salesman: for rennie davis (model high school student, antiwar spokesman and chief proselytizer for guru maharaj ji) the media always meant the message Playboy U.S. pp. 107–108, 112, 236, 238-240
Kelley, Ken 1974-07 Article (magazine) I See The Light: In which a young journalist pushes a cream pie into the face of His Divine Fatness and gets his skull cracked open by two disciples Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...

U.S. pp. 98–100, 137-138, 146, 148, 150-151
Baxter, Ernie 1974-08 Article (magazine) The multi-million dollar religion ripoff Argosy
Argosy (magazine)
Argosy was an American pulp magazine, published by Frank Munsey. It is generally considered to be the first American pulp magazine. The magazine began as a general information periodical entitled The Golden Argosy, targeted at the boys adventure market.-Launch of Argosy:In late September 1882,...

No. 380
U.S. pp. 72, 77-81
Dart, John 1974-11-27 Article (newspaper) Maharaj Ji Buys $400,000 Home Base in Malibu Area Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. B2
1974 Entry in encyclopedic resource Current Biography Yearbook: 1974, entry: "Maharaj Ji, Guru" H. W. Wilson Company
H. W. Wilson Company
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U.S. p. 254 ff.
Frazier, Deborah 1975-03-23 Article (newspaper) Growing Pile of Unpaid Bills Beneath Guru's Spiritual Bliss Sunday Journal and Star (UPI) U.S., Lincoln, Nebraska p. 11A
1975-03-24 Article (newspaper) Riches Called Goal of Divine Light Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Founded in 1872, as the Manitoba Free Press, it is the oldest newspaper in western Canada. It is the newspaper with the largest readership in the province....

(CP)
U.S.
1975-04-01 Article (newspaper) Mother Ousts Young Guru as Playboy Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. 2
Belkind, Myron L. 1975-04-02 Article (newspaper) Guru's mother rejects him as religion chief Independent
Press-Telegram (AP)
U.S., Long Beach p. 9
1975-04-09 Article (newspaper) Guru Tries to Take Control of Mission Ruston Daily Leader U.S.
1975-04-18 Article (newspaper) Court Halts Heiress' Money Gift To Guru Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston Daily Mail
The Charleston Daily Mail is a Pulitzer Prize winning Monday-Friday morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia.-Publishing History:The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Gov. Walter Eli Clark and remained the property of his heirs until 1987. Governor Clark described the newspaper...

(API)
U.S.
Frazier, Deborah 1975-07-14 Article (newspaper) Guru Maharaj Ji: Pizza, Sports Cars and Millions of Followers Mansfield News Journal
Mansfield News Journal
The Mansfield News Journal is a daily newspaper based in Mansfield, Ohio that serves the north central part of the state.Tom Brennan is the publisher and editor....

(UPI)
U.S.
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


et al.
1975 Book The Sayings of Guru Maharaj Ji Divine United Organization
Shri Sant Yogashram, Hans Marg
India, New Delhi Several volumes
1976-02-20 Article (newspaper) Maharaj Ji Wins Fight For Mission The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

U.S., Washington, D.C. p. C7
Cornell, George W. 1976-03-05 Article (newspaper) Group Led by Teen Guru Toning Down Eastern Style Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque Journal
-History:Its earliest predecessor, the Albuquerque Daily Journal, was first published on October 14, 1880. The newspaper is owned by the Journal Publishing Company, a family-owned business headed by president/publisher T.H. Lang; it is operated by the Albuquerque Publishing Company...

U.S.
1976-03-06 Article (newspaper) Spiritual group's claims, practices are changing Evening Capital (AP) U.S.
Brown, Mick 1976-04-17 Article (magazine) Perfect Master and unholy squabbles: The Guru comes of age Street Life UK pp. 18–19
Mishler, Bob
Frazier, Deborah (UPI: interviewer)
1976-05 Interview (magazine) Part of the mainstream The Golden Age No. 29 Australia p. 8 ff.
Thurmond, Strom
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes...

 (U.S. Congress
United States Congress
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 senator)
1976-07-20 US Congressional Record Prem Rawat's Inspirational Message to the United States Citizen's Congress US Congress U.S., Washington, D.C.
Messer, Jeanne 1976 Essay in book Guru Maharaj Ji and the Divine Light Mission The New Religious Consciousness by Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah
Robert N. Bellah
Robert Neelly Bellah is an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Bellah is best known for his work related to "American civil religion"...

 (eds.), University of California Press
U.S., Berkeley, California pp. 52–72
1977–1980s Magazine (quarterly) Élan Vital Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

U.S. ISSN 0195-2145
1977-10-19 Article (newspaper) Guru Maharaj Ji becomes a citizen of the U.S. Rocky Mountain News U.S., Denver, Colorado
Como, Don (dir.)
Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...

 (music)
Davis, Rennie
Rennie Davis
Rennard Cordon “Rennie” Davis is a former, prominent American anti-Vietnam War protest leader of the 1960s. He was one of the Chicago Seven....


Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


et al.
1977 Film (part) Aliens from Spaceship Earth U.S.
Stoner, Carroll
Parke, Jo Anne
1977 Book (part) All Gods Children: The Cult Experience - Salvation Or Slavery? Chilton U.S. ISBN 0-8019-6620-5
Foss, Daniel A.
Larkin, Ralph W.
1978 Essay in periodical Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji Sociological Analysis Vol. 39 No. 2 by Association for the Sociology of Religion U.S. DOI
Digital object identifier
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 10.2307/3710215, pp. 157-164
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1978 Book The Living Master: quotes from Guru Maharaj Ji Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

U.S., Denver
Collier, Sophia
Sophia Collier
Sophia Collier is an American author and entrepreneur. In 1977, at 21, Sophia Collier developed Soho Natural Soda in her kitchen in Brooklyn, New York and co-founded the American Natural Beverage Corp to distribute the product. The company grew to $25 million dollars in soft drink sales before the...

1978 Book (autobiography) Soul Rush: The Odyssey of a Young Woman of the '70s William Morrow & Co. U.S., New York ISBN 0-688-03276-1
Pilarzyk, Thomas 1978 Essay in periodical The Origin, Development, and Decline of a Youth Culture Religion: An Application of Sectarianization Theory Review of Religious Research Vol. 20 No. 1 by Religious Research Association U.S. pp. 23–43
1978
2001
Book (part) Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains
Army Pamphlet 165-13
U.S. Department of the Army
Kirchner Associates
(2001:) The Minerva Group
U.S. (2001:) ISBN 0-89875-607-3 p. II-5 ff.
Forster, Mark 1979-01-12 Article (newspaper) Firm Loyalty: Guru's Sect: Misgivings in Malibu
Malibu Guru Maintains Following Despite Rising Mistrust of Cults
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. A1, 3,...
Mishler, Bob
Tesler, Gary
et al.
1979-02-12 Interview (radio) Bob Mishler Radio Interview KOA radio station
KOA (AM)
KOA is a clear channel, news/talk radio station serving the Denver-Boulder and Colorado Springs, Colorado markets. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications and is nicknamed "the Blowtorch of the West" for its 50,000 watt signal.KOA was originally owned by General Electric and began...

U.S., Denver, Colorado
Downton, James V., Jr.
James V. Downton
James Victor Downton, Jr. is a sociologist known for his research on charismatic leadership, activism, and new religious movements. He received his PhD...

1979-07 Book (monography) Sacred journeys: The conversion of young Americans to Divine Light Mission
Sacred Journeys (book)
Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission is a sociological book about the adherents of the Divine Light Mission in the 1970s. In the work, author James V. Downton, Jr...

Columbia University Press U.S., Columbia ISBN 0-231-04198-5
Kemeny, Jim 1979 Essay in periodical Comment: On Foss, Daniel A. and Ralph W. Larkin. 1978. "Worshiping the Absurd: The Negation of Social Causality among the Followers of Guru Maharaj Ji." Sociological Analysis 39, 2: 157-164 Sociological Analysis Vol. 40 No. 3 by Association for the Sociology of Religion U.S. pp. 262–264
Nelson, G. K. 1979 Essay in periodical A Comment on Pilarzyk's Article "The Origin, Development and Decline of a Youth Culture Religion" (RRR, Fall, 1978) Review of Religious Research Vol. 21 No. 1 U.S. pp. 108–109
Pilarzyk, Thomas 1979 Essay in periodical The Cultic Resilience of the Divine Light Mission: A Reply to Nelson Review of Religious Research Vol. 21 No. 1 U.S. pp. 109–112
Price, Maeve 1979 Essay in periodical The Divine Light Mission as a social organization The Sociological Review Vol. 27 UK, Keele, Staffordshire pp. 279–296
Galanter, Marc
Buckley, P.
1979 Essay in periodical Mystical Experience, spiritual knowledge, and a contemporary ecstatic religion British Journal of Medical Psychology No. 52 UK pp. 281– 289
Davis, Ivor 1979-12-19 Article (newspaper) Malibu opposes plan to build heliport for Divine Light guru The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

UK, London p. 12
Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

1980 Book Light Reading Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...

U.S., Miami Beach
Rudin, James A.
Rudin, Marcia R.
1980-06 Book (part) Prison or Paradise?: The New Religious Cults Fortress Press U.S., Philadelphia ISBN 080060637X
p.63-65
Robbins, Thomas
Anthony, Dick
1980 Essay in periodical The Limits of 'Coercive Persuasion' as an Explanation for Conversion to Authoritarian Sects Political Psychology Vol. 2 No. 2 by International Society of Political Psychology U.S., New York pp. 22–37
Stones, C. R.
Philbrick, J. I.
1980 Essay in periodical Purpose in Life in South Africa: A Comparison of American and South African Beliefs Psychological Reports Vol. 47 South Africa pp. 739–42
Aagaard, Johannes 1980 Article (periodical) Who Is Who In Guruism? Update: A Quarterly Journal on New Religious Movements Vol. IV No. 3 by Dialogcentret
Dialog Center
The Dialog Center is a Christian counter-cult organization founded by a Danish professor of missiology and ecumenical theology, Dr. Johannes Aagaard . Considered Christian apologetic and missionary minded, the Dialog Center, led by Prof...

Denmark
Kriegman, Daniel
Daniel Kriegman
Daniel Kriegman is an American psychoanalyst and writer. He is a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England, and a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis...

1980 Book (part) A Psycho-social Study of Religious Cults From the Perspective of Self Psychology, Appendix A: "The Guru Mahara Ji Group: An experiential description: the journey to God" Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

U.S. Doctoral dissertation
pp. 164–188
references: pp. 218–220
Downton, James V., Jr.
James V. Downton
James Victor Downton, Jr. is a sociologist known for his research on charismatic leadership, activism, and new religious movements. He received his PhD...

1980-12 Essay in periodical An Evolutionary Theory of Spiritual Conversion and Commitment: The Case of Divine Light Mission Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Vol. 19 No. 4 U.S.
UK
ISSN 00218294
pp. 381–396
Lammers, Jos 1981-02-14 Article (magazine) Het concern van Guru Maharaj ji: Vijf jaar zakenman in dienst van de verlichting Haagse Post Vol. 68 No. 7 Netherlands, The Hague pp. 48–53
1981-05-22 Article (newspaper) 1-Year Trial OKd for Sect's Helipad Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. F6
Godfrey (justice) 1981-10-19 Court decision Dotter v. Maine Employment Sec. Commission Supreme Judicial Court of Maine U.S., Maine Case 435 A.2d 1368
McGuire, Meredith B. 1981
20025
Book (part) Religion: the Social Context Ch. 5 "The Dynamics of Religious Collectivities", section "How Religious Collectivities Develop and Change", sub-section "Organizational Transformations" Wadsworth U.S. ISBN 0-534-00951-4
5ISBN 0-534-54126-7
p. 175
Robbins, Thomas
Anthony, Dick
1982-02 Essay in periodical Deprogramming, Brainwashing and the Medicalization of Deviant Religious Groups Social Problems Vol. 29 No. 3. by Society for the Study of Social Problems
University of California Press
U.S. pp. 283-297
Brown, Chip 1982-02-15 Article (newspaper) http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/137241262.html?dids=137241262:137241262&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Feb+15%2C+1982&author=By+Chip+Brown+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1974-Current+file)&edition=&startpage=A1&desc=Parents+Versus+Cult%3A+Frustration%2C+Kidnaping%2C+TearsParents Versus Cult: Frustration, Kidnaping, Tears; A Question of Will: Law-Abiding Couple ... Who Became Kidnapers to Rescue Daughter from Her Guru] The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

U.S., Washington, D.C. p. A1
Schwartz, Lita Linzer
Kaslow, Florence W.
1982-06-07 Essay in periodical The Cult Phenomenon: Historical, Sociological, and Familial Factors Contributing to Their Development and Appeal Marriage & Family Review Volume 4 Issue 3-4
Haworth Press
Haworth Press
Haworth Press was a publisher of scholarly, academic and trade books, and approximately 200 peer-reviewed academic journals. It was founded in 1978 by the publishing industry executives Bill Cohen and Patrick Mclaughlin. The name was taken from the township of Haworth in England, the home of the...

U.S. ISSN 0149-4929
pp. 3–30
Robbins, Thomas
Anthony, Dick
1982-06-07 Essay in periodical Cults, Culture, and Community Marriage & Family Review Volume 4 Issue 3-4
Haworth Press
Haworth Press
Haworth Press was a publisher of scholarly, academic and trade books, and approximately 200 peer-reviewed academic journals. It was founded in 1978 by the publishing industry executives Bill Cohen and Patrick Mclaughlin. The name was taken from the township of Haworth in England, the home of the...

U.S. ISSN 0149-4929
pp. 57–79
Ottenberg, Donald J. 1982-06-07 Essay in periodical Therapeutic Community and the Danger of the Cult Phenomenon Marriage & Family Review Volume 4 Issue 3-4
Haworth Press
Haworth Press
Haworth Press was a publisher of scholarly, academic and trade books, and approximately 200 peer-reviewed academic journals. It was founded in 1978 by the publishing industry executives Bill Cohen and Patrick Mclaughlin. The name was taken from the township of Haworth in England, the home of the...

U.S. ISSN 0149-4929
pp. 151–173
Kranenborg, Reender
Reender Kranenborg
Reender Kranenborg was an editor of the magazine Religious Movement in the Netherlands published by the institute of religious studies of the Free University in Amsterdam....

1982 Book (part) Oosterse Geloofsbewegingen in het Westen Netherlands ISBN 90-210-4965-1
Schnabel, Paul
Paul Schnabel
Paul Schnabel is a Dutch sociologist and the director of an agency of the Dutch government called Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau , usually abbreviated as SCP . He is also professor at Utrecht University.- Biography :Schnabel grew up in Breda. He studied sociology at Utrecht University...

1982
(2007)
Book (part) Tussen stigma en charisma: nieuwe religieuze bewegingen en geestelijke volksgezondheid Van Loghum Slaterus
Digital library for Dutch literature
Digital library for Dutch literature
The Digital Library for Dutch Literature is a website about Dutch language and Dutch literature. The website contains thousands of literary texts, secondary literature and additional information, like biographies, portrayals etcetera, and hyperlinks...

Netherlands
ISBN 90-6001-746-3, p. 32, p. 53, p. 99, 101-102, p. 142
1983-10-06 Article (periodical) Whatever Happened to Guru Maharaj Ji? Hinduism Today by Himalayan Academy U.S. ISSN 0896-0801
Lans, Jan M. van der
Jan van der Lans
Johannes Maria van der Lans was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen .-Education:...


Derks, Frans
1984 Essay in book Subgroups in Divine Light Mission Membership: A Comment on Downton Of Gods and Men: New Religious Movements in the West by Eileen Barker, ed.
Mercer University Press
U.S., Macon, GA ISBN 0-86554-095-0 pp. 303-308
Chagnon, Roland 1985-01 Book (part) Trois nouvelles religions de la lumière et du son: la Science de la spiritualité, Eckankar, la Mission de la lumière divine Paulines
Médiaspaul
Canada, Montréal
France, Paris
ISBN 2890399850
Kriegman, Daniel
Daniel Kriegman
Daniel Kriegman is an American psychoanalyst and writer. He is a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England, and a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis...


Solomon, L.
1985-04 Essay in periodical Cult groups and the narcissistic personality: The offer to heal defects in the self International Journal of Group Psychotherapy Vol. 35 No. 2 U.S. pp. 239–261
Pasternak, Judy 1985-07-07 Article (newspaper) Maharaji Denied in Bid to Triple Copter Use Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. 1
Melton, J. Gordon
J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara...

1986rev Entry in encyclopedic resource Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, entry: "Divine Light Mission" Garland U.S., New York
UK, London
ISBN 0-8240-9036-5, pp. 141–145
Lans, Jan M. van der
Jan van der Lans
Johannes Maria van der Lans was a Dutch professor in the psychology of religion at the Catholic University of Nijmegen .-Education:...


Derks, Frans
1986-06-14 Essay in periodical Premies Versus Sannyasins Update: A Quarterly Journal on New Religious Movements Vol. X No. 2 by Dialogcentret
Dialog Center
The Dialog Center is a Christian counter-cult organization founded by a Danish professor of missiology and ecumenical theology, Dr. Johannes Aagaard . Considered Christian apologetic and missionary minded, the Dialog Center, led by Prof...

Denmark
DuPertuis, Lucy 1986 Essay in periodical How People Recognize Charisma: The Case of Darshan in Radhasoami and Divine Light Mission Sociological Analysis: A Journal in the Sociology of Religion Vol. 47 No. 2 by Association for the Sociology of Religion U.S., Chicago ISSN 0038-0210
pp. 111-124
Sharma, Arvind 1986 Essay in book New Hindu Religious Movements in India New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change by James A. Beckford
Unesco/Sage Publications
UK, London ISBN 0-8039-8003-8, p. 224
Galanter, Marc 1989-05-04
19992
Book (part) Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion
Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion
Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is a non-fiction book on cults and coercive persuasion, written by Marc Galanter . The book was published in hardcover format in 1989 by Oxford University Press, and again in hardcover in 1999 in a second edition work...

Oxford University Press U.S. ISBN 0-19-505631-0
2ISBN 0-19-512369-7
2ISBN 0-19-512370-0
Tucker, Ruth A. 1989
1991
2004
Book (part) Another Gospel: alternative religions and the new age movement (1989)
Strange Gospels: a comprehensive survey of cults, alternative religions and the New Age movement (1991)
Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement (2004)
Academie Books (1989)
Zondervan
Zondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Zondervan is a founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association .- History :...

 (1989, 2004)
Marshall Pickering
Marshall Pickering
Marshall Pickering was bought by Harper and Row in 1988, now part of HarperCollins.Marshall Pickering itself was formed in 1981 from two long established Christian publishers. Marshall Morgan and Scott, a London based predominantly Baptist publishing house, which had acquired a number of...

, Harpercollins (1991)
U.S. (1989, 2004)
UK (1991)
ISBN 0310404401 (1989)
ISBN 0551022779 (1991)
ISBN 0-310-25937-1 (2004)
p. 320, p. 364-365
Björkqvist, Kaj 1990 Essay World-rejection, world-affirmation, and goal displacement: some aspects of change in three new religious movements of Hindu origin Encounter with India: Studies in Neohinduism (Nils G. Holm, ed.)
Åbo Akademi
Finland ISBN 951-649-731-4, pp. 79-99
McIlwain, Doris J. F. 1990
(2006-06)
Book (part) Impatient for paradise: a rites of passage model of the role of the psychological predispositions in determining differential openness to involvement in new religious movements University of Sydney
Sydney eScholarship Repository
Australia, Sydney PhD Doctorate
Melton, J. Gordon
J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara...

1991
(1999-032)
(2008)
Entry in encyclopedic resource Religious Leaders of America, entry: "Guru Maharaj Ji" Gale; 2Gale Group
(2008:) Biography Resource Center
U.S., Michigan pp. 285–286.
2ISBN 0810388782
Juergensmeyer, Mark
Mark Juergensmeyer
thumb | right | 150px | Mark Juergensmeyer Mark Juergensmeyer is an American scholar and writer best known for his studies of religious violence and...

1991
1996
Book (part) Radhasoami Reality: The Logic of a Modern Faith Princeton University Press U.S. ISBN 0-691-07378-3
ISBN 0-691-01092-7
pp. 206–207
Mangalwadi, Vishal
Hoeksema, Kurt
19922 Book (part) The world of gurus: a critical look at the philosophies of India’s influential gurus and mystics. Cornerstone Press U.S., Chicago ISBN 094089503X (revised edition), pp. 137–138
Melton, J. Gordon
J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara...

 (Project Director)
Lewis, James R.
et al.
1993 Book (part) Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains The Institute for the Study of American Religion U.S. chapter on Sikh/Sant Mat Groups, section: Elan Vital
Barbour, John D. 1994 Book (part) Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith University of Virginia Press U.S. ISBN 0813915465
p. 170 ff.
Gest, Alain
Alain Gest
Alain Gest is a French politician. He was elected on 16 June 2002 to the 12th French National Assembly, representing the sixth district of Somme. He was reelected on 17 June 2007 to the 13th French National Assembly. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement party.- References :...


et al.
1995-12-22 Report (government) N° 2468: Rapport Fait au nom de la commission d'enquête sur les sectes, Ch. I.B: "Un phénomène difficile à mesurer" National Assembly, Parliamentary Commission on Cults (1995)  France p. 14 ff.
Melton, J. Gordon
J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara...

 (ed.)
5Shepard, Leslie (ed.)
19964
(2000-115)
(2008)
Entry in encyclopedic resource Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, entry: "Maharaj Ji, Guru" Gale; 5Thomson Gale
(2008:) Biography Resource Center
U.S. 4p. 803
5ISBN 0810385708
Winter, Mark
et al
1996-07-17 Magazine (special edition) The Divine Times: Special Edition 17 July 1996
Scheer, Robert
Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...

1997-04-01 Article (newspaper) http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/11360123.html?dids=11360123:11360123&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+1%2C+1997&author=ROBERT+SCHEER&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=7&desc=How+I+Was+Stood+Up+by+the+Venusians%3B+Even+a+brief+encounter+with+a+cult%27s+absurdity+reveals+its+power+to+attract.How I Was Stood Up by the Venusians: Even a brief encounter with a cult's absurdity reveals its power to attract] Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

U.S., Los Angeles p. 7
Brauns, John
et al.
1997– Web site Ex-Premie.org
Jones, Rebecca 1998-01-30 Article (newspaper) Former Guru on a Different Mission Rocky Mountain News U.S., Denver, Colorado
Lewis, James R. 1998-11-01
22005
Entry in encyclopedic resource Cults 1[in America]: A Reference Handbook, entries "Elan Vital (Divine Light Mission)" and "Maharaji (b. 1957)" ABC-Clio, Contemporary World Issues series U.S. ISBN 157607031X
2ISBN 1851096183
pp. 84-85, 121-122, 286-287, 307-308
Richardson, James T. 1998 Entry in encyclopedic resource Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (William H. Swatos, Jr., ed.), entry: "Divine Light Mission" AltaMira Press
Sage publications
U.S.
UK
India
ISBN 0-7619-8956-0, p. 141
Melton, J. Gordon
J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara...

1999 Essay Brainwashing and the Cults: The Rise and Fall of a Theory in forthcoming The Brainwashing Controversy: An Anthology of Essential Documents CESNUR
CESNUR
CESNUR , is an organization based in Turin, Italy. It was established in 1988 by a group of religious scholars from universities in Europe and the Americas, working in the field of new religious movements. Its director is the Italian sociologist and attorney Massimo Introvigne...

Italy
Abgrall, Jean-Marie 2000 Book (part) Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults U.S., New York Algora Publishing ISBN 189294104X p. 285
Rhodes, Ron 2001 Book (part) The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions: The Essential Guide to Their History, Their Doctrine, and Our Response Zondervan U.S. ISBN 0310232171
pp. 32, 170
Barrett, David V.
David V. Barrett
David V. Barrett is a British author who has written on religious and esoteric topics. He is also a regular contributor to The Independent, Fortean Times, and the Catholic Herald....

2001
2003-05
Book (part) The New Believers: Sects, 'Cults' and Alternative Religions Cassell
Orion Publishing Group
Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It is owned by Hachette Livre. In 1998 Orion bought Cassell.-History:Full history of the group can be found on Orion Publishing Group is owned by -Imprints:...

UK ISBN 0-304-35592-5
ISBN 1-84403-040-7
p. 65; Part Two: Alternative Religions & Other Groups, Ch. 14: Eastern Movements in the West, Elan Vital, p. 325-329
Kent, Stephen A.
Stephen A. Kent
Stephen A. Kent, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He researches new and alternative religions, and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God , the Church of Scientology, and newer faiths...

2001-10 Book (part) From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era Syracuse University Press U.S. ISBN 0-8156-2923-0
ISBN 0-8156-2948-6
Hassan, Steve
Steven Hassan
Steven Alan Hassan is a licensed mental health counselor and an exit counselor. Hassan was an early advocate of exit counseling, and is the author of two books on the subject of "cults", and what he describes as their use of mind control, thought reform, and the psychology of influence in order...


et al.
2001– Web page Elan Vital Steven Alan Hassan's Freedom of Mind Center U.S.
Macgregor, John 2002-08-31 Article (magazine) Blinded by the Light Good Weekend Australia, Sydney pp. 38–42
Geaves, Ron
Ron Geaves
Ron Geaves is a professor of religion at Liverpool Hope University in England. He was formerly Programme Leader and Chair in religious studies at the University of Chester in England and Head of Department at the University of Chichester. He is currently Chair of the Muslims in Britain Research...

 
2002
2004-03
Essay From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital and Beyond: an Exploration of Change and Adaptation 2002 International Conference on Minority Religions, Social Change and Freedom of Conscience at University of Utah
(2004:) Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions Vol. 7 No. 3
U.S., Salt Lake City
(2004:) U.S.
(2004:) pp. 45–62...
37 For the perspective of this group of dissatisfied ex-followers see < http://www.ex-premie.org >, accessed April 2002.

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Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


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|Rawat, Prem
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Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

||2003||Book||
Clarity||The Prem Rawat Foundation||U.S.||ISBN 0-9740627-1-5
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| ||2003||Essay||"Premies" Complain to Google of "Ex-Premie.org" site||Chilling Effects||U.S.||
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| ||2003-07||Entry in encyclopedic resource||
The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography, entry: "Maharaj Ji"||Houghton Mifflin||U.S.||ISBN 061825210X
p. 994
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|Jackson, Sally||2004-03-11||Article (newspaper)||Court lets 'cult' gag journalist||
The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

||Australia||p. 21
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Macgregor, John
et al.||2004-03-18||Interview (radio)||Suppression Orders & the Media||
The Media Report on ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 Radio National||Australia||
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|Thomas, Hedley||2004-04-24||Article (newspaper)||Peace at a price||
The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Limited, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's...

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|Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


Wolf, Burt
Burt Wolf
Burt Wolf is an American journalist, writer, chef and TV producer. He is the host of the PBS series Travels and Traditions.He has written or edited more than 60 books, authored a weekly column for The Washington Post and is a columnist at Salon.com.- Awards :Wolf was the first recipient of the...

 (interviewer)||2005||Interview (DVD)||
Inner Journey: A Spirited Conversation About Self-discovery||The Prem Rawat Foundation||U.S.||OCLC
OCLC
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs"...

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ASIN B000EDUGI4
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|Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....

 || 2005-05-17 || Public Address ||
Maharaji at Thamamssat University || Wikisource
Wikisource
Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has...

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|Geaves, Ron
Ron Geaves
Ron Geaves is a professor of religion at Liverpool Hope University in England. He was formerly Programme Leader and Chair in religious studies at the University of Chester in England and Head of Department at the University of Chichester. He is currently Chair of the Muslims in Britain Research...

||2006||Essay in periodical||Globalization, charisma, innovation, and tradition: An exploration of the transformations in the organisational vehicles for the transmission of the teachings of Prem Rawat (Maharaji)||Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies Vol. 2 by Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies Association||UK||ISBN 978-1-4196-2696-5
pp. 44–62
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|Mather, George
Nichols, Larry A.
Schmidt, Alvin J.||2006-08-01||Entry in encyclopedic resource||
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions: Revised and Updated Edition, entry "ELAN VITAL / DIVINE LIGHT MISSION"||Zondervan
Zondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Zondervan is a founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association .- History :...

||U.S.||ISBN 0310239540
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|Geaves, Ron
Ron Geaves
Ron Geaves is a professor of religion at Liverpool Hope University in England. He was formerly Programme Leader and Chair in religious studies at the University of Chester in England and Head of Department at the University of Chichester. He is currently Chair of the Muslims in Britain Research...

||2006-10-30||Essay in book||From Guru Maharaj Ji to Prem Rawat: Paradigm Shifts over the Period of Forty Years as a "Master" (1966-2006)||
Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America by Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft (eds.), Vol. IV: Asian Traditions, Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group is an educational publisher and is part of ABC-CLIO. It publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under Praeger Publishers...

||US||ISBN 0275987124
pp. 63–84
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| ||2006-12-20||Newsletter (digital)||Prem Rawat’s “Words of Peace” Receives Brazilian TV Award||
Inspire by The Prem Rawat Foundation||U.S.||
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|Cagan, Andrea
Andrea Cagan
Andrea Cagan is an American writer and biographer. She has edited, and collaborated on more than fifteen books, including biographies of Diana Ross, Grace Slick, Joan Lunden, and Prem Rawat...

||2007-01-16||Book (biography)||
Peace is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat||Mighty River Press||U.S.||ISBN 0-9788694-9-4

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|Mendick, Robert||2007-05-31||Article (newspaper)||Cult leader gives cash to Lord Mayor appeal||Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...

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|Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


et al.||2007-06-01||Public address||Prem Rawat at Guildhall, London||The Prem Rawat Foundation (DVD release)||UK, London||
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|Rossiter, Joe||2007-11-25||Article (newspaper)||Patrick Halley: Outgoing reporter lived colorful life||Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...

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|Mendick, Robert||2007-11-30
2007-12-02||Article (newspaper)||Guru followers asked to target Gandhi party||Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...


Gulf Times
Gulf Times
The Gulf Times newspaper was founded in 1978 as the first publication of the Gulf Publishing and Printing Company in the capital city of Qatar, Doha . One of three English-language newspapers in the country [2006]...

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Qatar, Doha||
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|Rawat, Prem
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....


Robles, Marta (interviewer)||2007||Interview (DVD)||Journey Within: a conversation between journalist Marta Robles and Prem Rawat, Barcelona, Spain||The Prem Rawat Foundation|| ||
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|Bromley, David G.
David G. Bromley
David G. Bromley is a professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. He has written extensively about "cults", new religious movements, apostasy, and the anti-cult movement.- Education and career :Bromley received his...

||2007||Book (part)||Teaching New Religious Movements||Aar Teaching Religious Studies Series by American Academy of Religion||U.S. ||ISBN 0-19-517729-0
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|Metz, Cade||2008-02-06||Article (magazine)||Wikipedia ruled by 'Lord of the Universe'||The Register
The Register
The Register is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice, Mike Magee and Ross Alderson in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service...

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|Finch, Michael||2009||Book||Without the Guru: How I Took My Life Back After Thirty Years||BookSurge Publishing||U.S.|| ISBN 1439245045
ISBN 978-1439245040
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