Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Heavenly Deception full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Heavenly Deception ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Chris Elkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780842314022
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Heavenly Deception written by Chris Elkins and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One man's spiritual descent into the very core of the moonies"--Cover page.
Author : Richard Quebedeaux
Publisher : Erick Rodriguez
ISBN 13 : 093289402X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Evangelical-Unification Dialogue written by Richard Quebedeaux and published by Erick Rodriguez. This book was released on 1979 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggie Brooks
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780525245162
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Heavenly Deception written by Maggie Brooks and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan W. Gomes
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310864550
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Unmasking the Cults written by Alan W. Gomes and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to the Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements, Dr. Gomes defines the characteristics of a "cult of Christianity" and why such a group subverts the search for spiritual truth. He explains the emotional and spiritual appeal of cults, who is susceptible, and the techniques cult leaders use to attract members. This book, in dealing with a wide range of issues relating to cults and religious movements in general, complements the other books in the series, all of which focus on specific religious groups. -- Why this series? This is an age when countless groups and movements, old and new, mark the religious landscape in our culture, leaving many people confused or uncertain in their search for spiritual truth and meaning. Because few people have the time or opportunity to research these movements fully, these books provide essential information and insights for their spiritual journeys. Except for this book, each book in the series has five sections: - A concise introduction to the group - An overview of the group's theology -- in its own words - Tips for witnessing effectively to members of the group - A bibliography with sources for further study - A comparison chart that shows the essential differences between biblical Christianity and the group -- The writers of these volumes are well qualified to present clear and reliable information and help us discern religious truth from falsehood.
Author : J. Isamu Yamamoto
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310534992
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Unification Church written by J. Isamu Yamamoto and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unification Church and its founder, Dr. Sun Myung Moon, have been in the center of controversy because of their recruiting practices, their financial holdings, and their authoritarian style--including arranged, mass marriages. Most controversial in terms of its teachings in Dr. Moon's claim to be a new Messiah who will finish what Jesus left "undone." Is he the Messiah, and is his Diving Principle the third testament of the Bible? Why this series? This is an age when countless groups and movements, old and new, mark the religious landscape in our culture, leaving many people confused or uncertain in their search for spiritual truth and meaning. Because few people have the time or opportunity to research these movements fully, these books provide essential information and insights for their spiritual journeys. All books but the summary volume, Truth and Error, contain five sections: -A concise introduction to the group being surveyed -An overview of the group’s theology — in its own words -Tips for witnessing effectively to members of the group -A bibliography with sources for further study -A comparison chart that shows the essential differences between biblical Christianity and the group -Truth and Error, the last book in the series, consists of parallel doctrinal charts compiled from all the other volumes. -Three distinctives make this series especially useful to readers: -Information is carefully distilled to bring out truly essential points, rather than requiring readers to sift their way through a sea of secondary details. -Information is presented in a clear, easy-to-follow outline form with “menu bar” running heads. This format greatly assists the reader in quickly locating topics and details of interest. -Each book meets the needs and skill levels of both nontechnical and technical readers, providing an elementary level of refutation and progressing to a more advanced level using arguments based on the biblical text. The writers of these volumes are well qualified to present clear and reliable information and help readers to discern truth from falsehood.
Author : Steven R. Bates
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Sequence written by Steven R. Bates and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the best way to let one know what something is, is to let one know what it isn't. Today's typical academic book in eschatology provides the reader with a brief history of the various positions in the field followed by why certain positions should be considered the better options. This is not that book. Over the course of twelve chapters, six sequences will be presented from the three major sources in the New Testament regarding the subject, i.e., Paul's letters to the Thessalonians, the Olivet Discourse, and John's visions in Revelation. Through a careful reconciliation of those six sequences, Dr. Steven R. Bates will show that there's only one sequence of end-times, which he has labeled "The Post-Armageddon, Premillennial Resurrection." He asserts that had any other sequence of end-times been correct, whether pre-tribulationism, pre-wrath, mid-tribulationism, historic pre-millennialism, post-millennialism, a-millennialism, preterism, or any other sequence that one could possibly imagine, then the proponents of that postulation should be able to take the same six sequences from Scripture and reconcile them precisely with one another, sentence by sentence, and prove whatever sequence they propose. But, of course, no one will ever attempt such an endeavor because it's theoretically impossible. Scripture's six sequences only confirm one sequence, and it is the one which has been presented in The Sequence.
Author : Robert Levine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471763179
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book The Power of Persuasion written by Robert Levine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-01-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An engaging, highly readable survey of the sophisticated methods of persuasion we encounter in various situations. From television to telemarketing and from self-deception to suicide cults, Levine takes a hard look at all the ways we attempt to persuade each other--and how and why they work (or don't). . . . The next time you wonder what possessed you to pay $50 for a medallion commemorating the series finale of Friends, you'll know where to turn." --Slashdot.org "If you're like most people, you think advertising and marketing work--just not on you. Robert Levine's The Power of Persuasion demonstrates how even the best-educated cynics among us can be victimized by sales pitches." --The Globe and Mail "Levine puts [his] analysis in the service of his real mission--to arm the reader against manipulation." --The Wall Street Journal "This wonderful book will change the way you think and act in many realms of your life." --Philip Zimbardo former president, American Psychological Association
Author : Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095731
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Minority Religions and Fraud written by Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious organisations can visit upon society and individuals. There has already been a lively debate concerning the structural context in which abuse, especially sexual abuse, can be perpetrated within religion. Contributors to the volume proceed from the premise that similar arguments about ways in which structure and power may be conducive to abuse can be made about fraud and deception. Both can contribute to abuse, yet they are often less easily demonstrated and proven, hence less easily prosecuted. With a focus on minority religions, the book offers a comparative overview of the concept of religious fraud by bringing together analyses of different types of fraud or deception (financial, bio-medical, emotional, breach of trust and consent). Contributors examine whether fraud is necessarily intentional (or whether that is in the eye of the beholder); certain structures may be more conducive to fraud; followers willingly participate in it. The volume includes some chapters focused on non-Western beliefs (Juju, Occult Economies, Dharma Lineage), which have travelled to the West and can be found in North American and European metropolitan areas.
Author : Roy Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429678401
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life written by Roy Wallis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1984, examines the whole range of new religious movements which appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the West. It develops a wide-ranging theory of these new religions which explains many of their major characteristics. Some of the movements are well-known, such as Scientology, Krishna Consciousness, and the Unification Church. Others such as the Process, Meher Baba, and 3-HO are much less known. While some became international, others remained local; in other ways, too, such as style, belief, organisation, they exhibit enormous diversity. The movements studied here are classified under three ideal types, world-rejecting, world-affirming and world-accommodating, and from here the author develops a theory of the origins, recruitment base, characteristics, and development patterns which they display. The book offers a critical exploration of the theories of the new religions and analyses the highly contentious issue of whether they reflect the process of secularisation, or whether they are a countervailing trend marking the resurgence of religion in the West.
Author : Robert L. Snow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057613
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Deadly Cults written by Robert L. Snow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a Vampire Cult differ from a Satanic Cult? How do seemingly normal or ordinary citizens suddenly find themselves committed to a group whose leader promotes criminal activities and isolation from families and friends? What should you do if a loved one becomes indoctrinated by a potentially dangerous cult? This book focuses on various cults and their often criminal belief systems. Most readers are shocked by stories of mass suicides and ritualized cult killings, but few understand how such crimes come to be committed. Snow, a seasoned police officer with experience working on cult crimes, examines those cults that commit offenses from murder and fraud to kidnapping and sexual assault. By providing specific accounts of dangerous cults and their destructive acts, Snow illustrates how seemingly innocent groups can turn pernicious when under the sway of a charismatic leader with an agenda, or when members take things too far. He offers advice on how to avoid falling victim to cult indoctrination, concluding with chapters on how to identify cults, how to protect yourself and your family, and what to do if a loved one is ensnared by such a group.
Author : Dominic Streatfeild
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466834501
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Brainwash written by Dominic Streatfeild and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and disturbing, Brainwash is essential insight into the modern practice of interrogation and torture. With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps, Dominic Streatfeild traces the evolution of mind control from its origins in the Cold War to the height of today's war on terror. Behind the front lines of every war in the world, prisoners are forced to sit for interrogation: manipulated, coerced, and sometimes tortured--often without ever being touched. Brainwash is a history of the methods intended to destroy and reconstruct the minds of captives, to extract information, convert dissidents, and lead peaceful men to kill and be killed.
Author : J. B. Hixson
Publisher : Lucid Books
ISBN 13 : 1935909495
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Great Last Days Deception written by J. B. Hixson and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195123697
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Cults written by Marc Galanter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years of research inform this study of cults and cult behavior, an analysis that explores the psychology of cult member's minds, how cults operate, and the development of several specific cults.
Author : Anthony Kales
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461391946
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Mosaic of Contemporary Psychiatry in Perspective written by Anthony Kales and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry has undergone a dynamic evolution in the last 40 years, an evolution to which Dr. Louis West made many contributions. Psychiatry today and Dr. West's career are intertwined in a mosaic of interaction. It is therefore fitting that this compilation of essays in honor of Dr. West is entitled The Mosaic of Contemporary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives. The papers collectively form a snapshot of the field of psychiatry today. Each chapter offers a historical perspective of the topic discussed, followed by a description of modern day issues and a look at the future of psychiatry. This book will enhance the knowledge and technical skills of psychiatrists as well as other clinicians in the mental health care field.
Author : Philip Sheldrake
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334049547
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality written by Philip Sheldrake and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary attempts to give direct access to the development of Christian Spirituality. It is a series of pieces written by experts to provide instant, accurate and thought-provoking information of high scholarship.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Staff Investigative Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana, Tragedy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Staff Investigative Group and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118722108
Total Pages : 258 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 2015-06-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies surrounding each group. A fully updated, revised and expanded edition of an unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements Profiles a number of the most visible, significant, and controversial new religious movements, presenting each group’s history, doctrines, rituals, leadership, and organization Offers a discussion of the major controversies in which new religious movements have been involved, using each profiled group to illustrate the nature of one of those controversies Covers debates including what constitutes an authentic religion, the validity of claims of brainwashing techniques, the implications of experimentation with unconventional sexual practices, and the deeply rooted cultural fears that cults engender New sections include methods of studying new religions in each chapter as well as presentations on ‘groups to watch’
