Lowell D Streiker

LOWELL D. STREIKER holds a Ph.D in religion from Princeton University and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Streiker is a phenomenologist of religion and has been an advisor to members of the U.S. Congress and to the White House. A leading expert on the nature of religious conversion, he is the author, co-author, editor, or contributor to more than twenty books including The Cults are Coming: The Continuing Threat , M ind-Bending: Brainwashing, Cults, and Deprogramming in...See more

LOWELL D. STREIKER holds a Ph.D in religion from Princeton University and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Streiker is a phenomenologist of religion and has been an advisor to members of the U.S. Congress and to the White House. A leading expert on the nature of religious conversion, he is the author, co-author, editor, or contributor to more than twenty books including The Cults are Coming: The Continuing Threat , M ind-Bending: Brainwashing, Cults, and Deprogramming in the '80s and The Gospel Time Bomb: Ultrafundamentalism and the Future of America . Dr. Streiker has been a frequent guest on national television and radio shows, and on hundreds of local radio programs. He has been interviewed by The New York Times , Time , and Newsweek magazines, as well as many other publications in the United States and abroad. See less