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Author : James A. Beckford
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780422796309
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Cult Controversies written by James A. Beckford and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Robbins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802081889
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Misunderstanding Cults written by Thomas Robbins and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misunderstanding Cults provides a uniquely balanced contribution to what has become a highly polarized area of study. Working towards a moderate "third path" in the heated debate over new religious movements or cults, this collection includes contributions from both scholars who have been characterized as "anticult" and those characterized as "cult-apologists." The study incorporates multiple viewpoints as well as a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, with the stated goal of depolarizing the discussion over alternative religious movements. A prominent section within the book focuses explicitly on the issue of scholarly objectivity and the danger of partisanship in the study of cults. The collection also includes contributions on the controversial and much misunderstood topic of brainwashing, as well as discussions of cult violence, children brought up in unconventional religious movements, and the conflicts between alternative religious movements and their critics. Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.
Author : Jan Karel van Baalen
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016128346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Chaos Of Cults A Study In Present Day Isms written by Jan Karel van Baalen and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Nathan D. Mitchell (o.s.b.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Cult and Controversy written by Nathan D. Mitchell (o.s.b.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Mitchell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814660508
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Cult and Controversy written by Nathan Mitchell and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Mitchell has written this book to enrich the Church's understanding of the many theologies and popular customs that have attached themselves to the eucharist over the last two thousand years.
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545125
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Cults written by James R. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined - apocalypticism, deprogramming, social isolation, cults and the media, the use and threat of violence, child custody, libel, tax evasion, solicitation, and the techniques of persuasion and conviction - as are the many charismatic cult leaders. Cults presents a comprehensive and authoritative reference, offering a balanced view of the controversy surrounding these new religious movements, assessing the movements themselves as well as the legal and governmental responses to them, including attempts to quantify membership.
Author : James A. Beckford
Publisher : Routledge Kegan & Paul
ISBN 13 : 9780422796408
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Cult Controversies written by James A. Beckford and published by Routledge Kegan & Paul. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Randall Noblitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440831491
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Cult and Ritual Abuse written by James Randall Noblitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal yet scholarly journey into the confusing and clandestine world of ritual abuse survivors sheds light on their catastrophic experiences and their efforts to heal afterward. Revised, updated, and expanded, this third edition of a classic study is one of the most authoritative and evenhanded volumes to tackle its hotly debated subject matter. Incorporating the authors' firsthand observations, the book provides historical, anthropological, and psychological context for contemporary reports of both ritual abuse and ritual crime. In addition to sharing patient vignettes and a history of cult and ritual abuse in society, the authors explore fascinating topics related to these practices, among them what triggers personality shifts for victims even many years after the abuse has stopped. Importantly, the book shows how ritual abuse affects society as a whole, influencing civil and criminal law, politics, legislation, social movements, social welfare, and psychological theory. It provides unique insights into the scientific study, forensic investigation, and implementation of social services for survivors of cult and ritual abuse, discusses new research and treatment strategies, and establishes the foundation for a psychological diagnosis to be called Cult and Ritual Trauma Disorder.
Author : Benjamin David Zablocki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786612028731
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Misunderstanding Cults written by Benjamin David Zablocki and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its breadth, this is the first study of new religious movements to address the main points of controversy within the field while attempting to find a middle ground between opposing camps of scholarship.
Author : Walter Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of the Cults written by Walter Martin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference work containing a thorough analysis of all the major cults and the significant minor cults.
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545133
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Cults written by James R. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined - apocalypticism, deprogramming, social isolation, cults and the media, the use and threat of violence, child custody, libel, tax evasion, solicitation, and the techniques of persuasion and conviction - as are the many charismatic cult leaders. Cults presents a comprehensive and authoritative reference, offering a balanced view of the controversy surrounding these new religious movements, assessing the movements themselves as well as the legal and governmental responses to them, including attempts to quantify membership.
Author : John L. Allen
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0385520301
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Opus Dei written by John L. Allen and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church. Opus Dei (literally "the work of God") is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal Christian perfection and strive to implement Christian ideals in their jobs and in society as a whole. It has been accused of promoting a right-wing political agenda and of cultlike practices. Its notoriety escalated with the publication of the runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code (Opus Dei plays an important and sinister role in the novel). With the expert eye of a longtime observer of the Vatican and the skill of an investigative reporter intent on uncovering closely guarded secrets, John Allen finally separates the myths from the facts.--From publisher description.
Author : Eugene V. Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317156668
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book 'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective written by Eugene V. Gallagher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the Unification movement, The Family International (Children of God), the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and the Church of Scientology. Bringing together both insiders and outsiders from various academic disciplines and personal perspectives, this book takes account of the ways in which the cult question is defined and addressed in different countries. It offers a vivid depiction of how the cult wars or cult controversies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries first took shape; the transformation of deeply entrenched positions on cults and sects as at least some members of new groups, cult watchers, and academics entered into serious and sustained conversations about topics of mutual concern; the shifting foci and concerns of the general public, law enforcement and the courts, and academics in various countries; and the complex histories of individual groups in which many dramatic transformations have occurred despite their comparatively short life spans.
Author : Sarah Edmondson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797201468
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Scarred written by Sarah Edmondson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in the HBO docuseries THE VOW: The shocking and subversive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower, and her inspiring true story of abuse, escape, and redemption. "'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutely aware that I am lying in the sweat of my sisters, I will have blocked that out. Lying there completely naked, I am at my most vulnerable but determined to prove my strength. I try to keep my legs closed as my body wills itself to protect my most private area. . . . I tell myself: I am a warrior. I birthed a human. I can handle pain. But nothing could have ever prepared me for the feel of this fire on my skin." Scarred is Sarah Edmondson's compelling memoir of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, the 12 years she spent within the organization (during which she enrolled over 2,000 members and entered DOS—NXIVM's "secret sisterhood"), her breaking point, and her harrowing fight to get out, to expose Keith Raniere and the leadership, to help others, and to heal. Complete with personal photographs, Scarred is also an eye-opening story about abuses of power, female trust and friendship, and how sometimes the search to be "better" can override everything else. • In the tradition of Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman, Escape by Carolyn Jessop, and Troublemaker by Leah Remini • This tell-all follows Sarah from the moment she takes her first NXIVM seminar, to the invitation she accepts from her best friend, Lauren Salzman, into DOS, to her journey toward become a key witness in the federal case against its founders • Evokes questions about friendship, ethics, good and evil, making it a brilliant selection for book clubs Audio edition read by the author.
Author : Elizabeth Wickenberg Ely
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819221589
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Manual for Eucharistic Visitors written by Elizabeth Wickenberg Ely and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Rev. ed. of]: A manual for lay Eucharistic ministers in the Episcopal Church. c1991.
Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111872349X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Cults and New Religions written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religiousmovements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect thelatest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders,beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specificcontroversies surrounding each group. A fully updated, revised and expanded edition of anunparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements Profiles a number of the most visible, significant, andcontroversial new religious movements, presenting eachgroup’s history, doctrines, rituals, leadership, andorganization Offers a discussion of the major controversies in which newreligious movements have been involved, using each profiled groupto illustrate the nature of one of those controversies Covers debates including what constitutes an authenticreligion, the validity of claims of brainwashing techniques, theimplications of experimentation with unconventional sexualpractices, and the deeply rooted cultural fears that cultsengender New sections include methods of studying new religions in eachchapter as well as presentations on ‘groups towatch’
Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815308607
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Cult Controversy written by J. Gordon Melton and published by . This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
