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Acknowledgment
This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the American Family Foundation
conference in Edmonton (June, 2004). I thank Stephen Kent for his editorial suggestions,
and for the access that he granted me to the collection on alternative religions that he
oversees for the University of Alberta Library.
Jessie Meikle is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
She is currently working on her Master‘s thesis in the area of diet, sociology of the body and
new religious movements.
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