Kniga posvyashchena odnoy iz naibolee slozhnykh i aktual'nykh problem sovremennoy istoricheskoy nauki. "Netraditsionnye" religii, stavshie osobenno zametnym fenomenom obshchestvennoy zhizni Rossii v poslednee desyatiletie KhKh veka, po sey den' prodolzhayut ostavat'sya fenomenom maloizuchennym i maloponyatnym ne tol'ko dlya shirokoy obshchestvennosti, no i dlya spetsialistov - religiovedov i istorikov. Avtor rassmatrivaet tipologiyu netraditsionnykh religiy, prichiny ikh rasprostraneniya i zhivuchesti. Osoboe vnimanie udelyaetsya istorii shesti naibolee znachimykh dlya Dal'nego Vostoka Rossii netraditsionnykh religiy: Mezhdunarodnogo Obshchestva Soznaniya Krishny, Very Bakhai, Tserkvi Khrista (Bostonskoe dvizhenie), Tserkvi Iisusa Khrista Svyatykh poslednikh dney, Assotsiatsii Svyatogo Dukha za Ob"edinenie Mirovogo Khristianstva i Tserkvi Saentologii. Kniga prednaznachena dlya prepodavateley, studentov i aspirantov, vsekh interesuyushchikhsya problemami religii.