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Traveling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestationsoften bizarre and sometimes terrifyingof its religious spirit. The journey took him from the dark woods of Puritan New England to neo-Nazi cults in the Rockies from Mormons and snake handlers to fundamentalist groups who challenge the teaching of evolution from channelers in California to the sexual and financial scandals surrounding millionaire TV preachers. Read more