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Gaius Glenn Atkins
1868–1956
A Congregational minister who turned a life in the pulpit into thoughtful, accessible books about faith, culture, and the modern religious world. His work blends preaching, teaching, and a wide curiosity about how belief shapes everyday life.
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Modern Religious Cults and Movements
by Gaius Glenn Atkins
About the author
Born on October 4, 1868, Gaius Glenn Atkins was an American Congregational minister, teacher, and author. He studied at Ohio State University, Cincinnati Law School, and Yale Divinity School, and was ordained in 1895.
Over the years he served churches in Massachusetts, Vermont, Detroit, and Providence. He later became professor of homiletics at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, where he taught preaching until his retirement in 1937.
Atkins wrote widely on religion and public life, with books including Modern Religious Cults and Movements, The Making of the Christian Mind, Religion in Our Times, and A Rendezvous with Life. His career shows the range of a writer who was equally at home in the church, the classroom, and the world of serious popular nonfiction.