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Author : Shashibhusan Das Gupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Obscure Religious Cults written by Shashibhusan Das Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Obscure Religious Cults written by Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Das Gupta Shashibhusan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Obscure Religious Cults written by Das Gupta Shashibhusan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615927387
Total Pages : 951 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surpassing the scope and the thoroughness of the first edition, this new edition of The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions is the most wide-ranging and accessible resource on the historically significant and more obscure, sinister, and bizarre religious groups. Including many entries by scholarly specialists, this volume explains more than 1,000 diverse groups and movements, from such well-known sects as the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate, to obscure groups like Ordo Templi Satanas, Witches International, and the Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus. In addition to an exhaustive index and handy cross-references, the second edition includes over a hundred new topical entries on subjects relevant to understanding sectarian movements, from snake-handling and satanic ritual abuse to brainwashing and exorcism.This book, a must for all libraries and schools, will endure as the first and only point of reference for researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in fringe religious groups.
Author : Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Obscure Religious Cults written by Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shashibhusan Dasgupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Obscure Religious Cults written by Shashibhusan Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Marcus Bach
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205568
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Strange Sects and Curious Cults written by Dr. Marcus Bach and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Sects and Curious Cults, first published in 1961, is a well-written overview of a number of important religious sects and cults. Author Marcus Bach divides these into three categories: the sex sects, conscience cults, and the utopianists. The first group includes ancient Baalism of Mesopotamia, Osirism of Egypt, Shivism of India, and more recently, Voodoo of Africa and the New World. The Conscience Cults include the Penitentes, Apocalypticists, Father Divine of Harlem, the Oxford Groupers, and Psychiana. The section on Utopians includes the now-vanished Russian Doukhobors, followed by the Shakers, Amanas, Hutterites, and Mormons. For anyone looking for a good introduction to offbeat religious groups, Strange Sects and Curious Cults will provide a useful background and serve as a basis for further research.
Author : David G. Bromley
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strange Gods written by David G. Bromley and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in detail the history, fund-raising, and possible use of brain-washing by such religious cults as the Unification Church, People's Temple, and Hare Krishnas.
Author : Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Obscure Religious Cults written by Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118723503
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 2015-04-27 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’
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195127447
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Mystics and Messiahs written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.
Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Cults and New Religions written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the development of new religions and the controversies surrounding them in late modern society. A stimulating, course-friendly overview of the history and development of new religious movements (NRMs) in the late twentieth century Explores eight cults and NRMs, including the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, Unificationism, The Family International, the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, the Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate, and Wicca Each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies surrounding this group 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.
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199315310
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Controversial New Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by established scholars as well as younger experts in their field, this updated and revised second edition of Controversial New Religions offers a scholarly, dispassionate look at the new religious groups that have generated the most attention in the media and general public.
Author : Ruth A. Tucker
Publisher : HarperCollins Christian Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780310259374
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Another Gospel written by Ruth A. Tucker and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth A. Tucker's book is a comprehensive survey of all the major alternative religions in the United States, including the new groups since the 1960s.
Author : David G. Bromley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668989
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Cults, Religion, and Violence written by David G. Bromley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo; the murder-suicides by the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Canada; and the collective suicide by the members of Heaven's Gate. They explore the dynamics leading to these dramatic episodes in North America, Europe, and Asia, and offer insights into the general relationship between violence and religious cults in contemporary society. The authors conclude that these events usually involve some combination of internal and external dynamics through which a new religious movement and society become polarized.
Author : Amanda Montell
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062993178
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Cultish written by Amanda Montell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . . Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.” But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day. Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere.
Author : William Joseph Whalen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879736668
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Strange Gods written by William Joseph Whalen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft and the occult - Jehovah's Witnesses - Moonies - Scientology - Transcendental Meditation - Hare Krishna - Children of God - The Way - Divine Light Mission - Edgar Cayce and the A.R.E.
