Sects, churches and religions; Elements for spiritual discernment

In "Sects, Churches, and Religions," Jean-Yves Leloup enlighteningly and seriously deconstructs the world of sects and those who claim to be prophets or messiahs of the new age, explaining how they manage to gather thousands of followers to their ideas and dogmas and demonstrating the mechanisms behind a group that proclaims itself the holder of absolute truth and salvation. Leloup also questions the role of churches and religions today, which should provide teaching and fellowship but have increasingly become places where communion and peace no longer find space. With his insightful and enlightened style, Leloup demonstrates that we must find a middle path: "neither blind adherence, nor blind condemnation, nor irony," but discernment, a questioning faith that does not exempt us from thinking for ourselves.