Michael W. Cuneo is a Canadian-born author who was professor of sociology and anthropology at Fordham University.

Early life and education

Cuneo was born in in Canada.

He worked as a cab driver in Toronto, Ontario. His father had also been a cab driver.

Cuneo received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in the study of religion in 1988. His doctoral supervisor was Roger O’Toole.

He became a professor at Fordham University in New York City, and has subsequently retired.

Bibliography Catholics Against the Church: Anti-Abortion Protest in Toronto, 1969-1985 (1989) The Sociology of Religion: An Organizational Bibliography (1990) with Anthony J. Blasi, The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty (2001) Almost Midnight: An American Story of Murder and Redemption (2004) A Need to Kill: Confessions of a Teen Murderer (2011) One Last Kiss: The True Story of a Minister's Bodyguard, His Beautiful Mistress, and a Brutal Triple Homicide (2012)

Personal life

He has four children.

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