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Waco, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians

Tagged: David Koresh, Radio Five, Podcast, Video, Waco, Branch Davidians, Catherine Wessinger, J. Gordon Melton, Gary Noesner, Philip Jenkins, Phillip Arnold, Matthew Wittmer, Britta Gullin


See also the CDAMM article on Branch Davidians


The Waco Branch Davidian Tragedy: What Have We Learned or Not Learned?

Four religious studies experts discuss the 1993 clash between the Branch Davidian community at Mount Carmel and US law enforcement agencies:

J. Phillip Arnold, James D. Tabor, Catherine Wessinger, and Stuart A. Wright

Available from Catherine Wessinger's YouTube channel.


End of Days: BBC Radio Five Live podcasts on the story of David Koresh

“The story of David Koresh: the prophet whose cult in Waco, Texas preached an apocalypse – and the 30 Britons taken in by his message. This is how they got to Waco, and how they lived and died for him.”

Preview—“A Texas cult, thirty Britons, their path to Waco – and into the hands of David Koresh.”

Episode One: A Prophet on Campus—“David Koresh comes to an English college - and the seeds of the cult are sewn.”

Episode Two: Crowded House—“The cult spreads to Manchester - a bizarre house meeting and phone calls from 'God'.”

Episode Three: Rock 'n' Roll Jesus—“In the city of Waco, Texas, hard rockers encounter the Prophet - and a British dad confronts him.”

Episode Four: The Sinful Messiah—“The Prophet's darkness is revealed.”

Episode Five: Under Siege—"The cult is surrounded by the FBI - and tensions fray.”

Episode Six: Blind Faith—“Koresh leads his followers to their deaths.”

Episode Seven: Better Call Kirk—“After the tragedy at Waco two larger than life characters enter the story to fight the Britons' memory.”

Episode Eight: Judgement—“Returning to charred ground at Waco - and a fatal, final recording.”


From “Reflecting on an American Tragedy”, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (18 April 2013, published 20 Nov. 2014)

Catherine Wessinger, “Listening to Branch Davidians: Learning from the Survivors”

J. Gordon Melton, “The Branch Davidians and Texas Religious History”

Gary Noesner, Chief, FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit (retired), “The Challenges of Negotiating at Waco”

Philip Jenkins, “Remember Waco! The Disaster in Politics and Popular Culture”

Phillip Arnold, “The Branch Davidians Dilemma: "To Obey God or Man?”

Matthew Wittmer, “A Pictorial Introduction to the Mt. Carmel Property”


Catherine Wessinger, “The Siege of the Branch Davidians at Mount Carmel Center according to the FBI”, conference on The Vitality of New Religions: Thinking Globally, Existing Locally, Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (June 4-7,2014)


Britta Gullin, “Violence in two millenarian movements: The process preceding the tragic ending”, CenSAMM conference, Violence and Millenarian Movements (published 27 April 2017)

“On the 5th of October 1994 in Freiburg, Switzerland (later also in France and Canada) and on the 28th of February 1993 in Waco, Texas USA, serious events took place in which millenarian movements were involved. In a house in Freiburg, owned by members of the millenarian movement OTS (Ordre du Temple Solaire), the police found several dead bodies...I will in my text focus on a few aspects in the process that preceded the tragic endings related to these two movements.”



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