"Integrity and Suspicion
in
New Religious
Movement Research"
In April of 1998 we received a remarkable paper by Dr. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi entitled "Integrity and Suspicion in NRM Research." This paper is a revised and abridged version of his "Advocacy and Research on New Religious Movements," presented at the November 7-9, 1997 meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion in San Diego, California. It is with his consent that we offer our overview: