About the Author

Frank K. Flinn serves as Adjunct Professor in Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois; a Bachelor of Divinity degree magna cum laude, from Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a Ph.D. in Special Religious Studies from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Ontario. He has done advanced study at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he was a Fulbright Fellow in Philosophy and Ancient Near Eastern Religions.

Since 1968, Mr. Flinn has written and lectured about new religious movements which have arisen in the 19th and 20th centuries and is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Religion.