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 Hose. 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, Mind-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.