Blending hyper-patriotic beliefs with millennial yearnings, the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) generated much interest in early 1990 when their leader urged adherents to flock to vast church-built emergency shelters to survive a predicted nuclear war. Drawing on extensive interviews with church members and officials, Whitsel (political science, Pennsylvania State U.) analyzes the group's evolution within the context of other millennial groups and analyzes the church's interactions with its political environment. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)