| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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W. Michael Ashcraft. The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 258. $35.00.

W. Michael Ashcraft offers a long-overdue revisionist analysis of the Theosophists of Point Loma, California, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He joins those scholars who in recent years have portrayed religious "alternatives" as fully participant in American cultural life. Drawing on R. Laurence Moore's Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans (1986) and Mary Farrell Bednarowski's New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America (1989), Ashcraft argues that in developing their unique belief system, the Point Loma Theosophists, rather than deviating from some definitionally elusive "mainstream," drew on the same values and cultural categories and addressed the same spiritual questions as did other Americans.

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