 This book, which helped pioneer a new genre of anthropological writing, was, at the publisher's insistence, published under the pseudonym Manda Cesara.After Poewe married Irving Hexham the two co-authored "Understanding Cults and New Religions" (1986) and "New Religions as Global Cultures" (1997).Poewe began fieldwork in South Africa where she studied the rise of Charismatic Christian Churches and the relationship of their members to apartheid.