Jacques Parker
About:
Jacques (he/him) is an MA student in religious studies, specializing in American religious traditions, cults and new religious movements (NRMs), anti-cultism, and American metaphysical religion. Particular interests include deprogramming and Ted Patrick, the Branch Davidians and Waco siege, Scientology, and ghosts, UFOs, and cryptids in America.
Jacques received his BA in history and religious studies, with honors in religious studies, from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, in 2023. His honors thesis was published in the International Journal for the Study of New Religions (https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.26579), and he is published in the Lewis & Clark College undergraduate journal for international relations, The Meridian.
