About the Author

Pamela Dewey has a B.A., magna cum laude, in education, with graduate work in education, psychology, and social sciences, from Michigan State University. She has been doing research in the field of modern religious movements for over 25 years. Pam's popular Field Guide to the Wild World of Religion website at isitso.org has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world who are looking for accurate information on a wide variety of religious groups, movements, teachers, and preachers. She maintains over a dozen websites and five blogs on a variety of educational and inspirational topics, and travels with her husband George throughout the year to present seminars at conferences around the country.