65. Barrett, Stanley R. The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia: A Wealthy Theocracy in Contemporary Perspective. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1977.

According to H. Turner, 1980 (see item 693), this book is praiseworthy for its thoroughness. Barrett finds that economics was a necessary but not sufficient factor in the development of the Holy Apostles Church; instead the founder's charisma and the influence on him of church history seem to have been decisive in setting the movement's communal form.

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