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Author : John Lofland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doomsday Cult written by John Lofland and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher : Pinter & Martin Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1905177194
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Prophecy Fails written by Leon Festinger and published by Pinter & Martin Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of outlining a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and his colleagues infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world was only months away. How would these people feel when their prophecy remained unfulfilled? Would they admit the error of their prediction, or would they readjust their reality to make sense of the new circumstances?
Author : iMinds
Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1921798491
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doomsday Cults written by iMinds and published by iMinds Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the history of Doomsday Cults with iMinds insightful knowledge series. A doomsday cult is a quasi-religious group that believe the end of the world is imminent. Doomsday cults are typically led by charismatic messiah-figures, who teach that their cult holds the secret to surviving the apocalypse. More recently the term has come to include cults who carry out acts of violence or terrorism in an attempt to bring about revolutionary change. Despite increased media attention in the last thirty years, doomsday cults are not a recent phenomenon. Sanskrit texts from Ancient India suggest that doomsday cults existed in prehistory. In what is now the region of Kashmir in northern India, a demoness named "Long-Tongue" was worshipped by villagers in the hope she would prevent the end of the world by eating human waste. By the sixth century AD, Long-Tongue was adapted by Hindu tradition and became the goddess Kali. Kali is still present in the Hindu pantheon as the goddess of destruction, but for most Hindus she does not hold an apocalyptic role. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds unique fast-learning modules as seen in the Financial Times, Wired, Vogue, Robb Report, Sky News, LA Times, Mashable and many others.. the future of general knowledge acquisition.
Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684226207
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Prophecy Fails written by Leon Festinger and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Hardcover Reprint of the 1956 First edition. When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.
Author : Alan R Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781777259402
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doomsday Cults ; The Devil's Hostages written by Alan R Warren and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375725806
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Underground written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-04-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world. On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.
Author : Jonathan J. Moore
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781760790875
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doomsday Cults written by Jonathan J. Moore and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doomsday Cults: death, destruction and despair shows how different people throughout the ages used the Biblical texts as the fount of their philosophy. Rather than leading to peace and redemption, their interpretations led to death, destruction and despair.
Author : Eugen Weber
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366189
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Apocalypses written by Eugen Weber and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugen Weber delivered the Barbara Frum Historical Lecture, based on Apocalypses, at the University of Toronto in March 1999. This annual lecture "on a subject of contemporary history in historical perspective" was established in memory of Barbara Frum. Apocalypses Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages The Barbara Frum Historical Lectureship A national bestseller What drove eminent historian Eugen Weber to write Apocalypses? His desire to redress the historical and religious amnesia that has consigned the study of apocalyptic and millennialist thought to the lunatic fringe. An absolute belief in the end time was omnipresent until the 17th century, and retains many adherents even now. Apocalyptic visions and prophecies inspired crusades, scientific discoveries, works of art, voyages such as those of Columbus, rebellions and reforms. Elegantly written, as witty and entertaining as it is profound, Apocalypses displays Eugen Weber's talents as a stylist and historical detective; this is more a travel book of the apocalypse than a definitive academic treatment. On the eve of a billennium beset by a host of apocalyptic predictions and cults, Apocalypses offers a sympathetic review of creeds we ignore at our peril.
Author : Brandon Salo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736402405
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Poison Into Medicine written by Brandon Salo and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the other men enjoy several wives, why not me?" Brandon was a boy coming of age.Finally, after a lost childhood with a Father leading him into cult life and his bipolar Mother stricken with chronic personality disorder, there was something to look forward to before the looming Armageddon. Everything was on track, until his 15-year old fiancée disappeared. In the end, a bride wasn't all Brandon lost in his first 30 years. It was only the beginning of a story nobody could have predicted. Despite the deception and excruciating heartbreak, he managed to find an unbreakable sense of peace. Poison Into Medicine, wades you through the swamp of Brandon's childhood spent in a doomsday cult. A corrupted baptism of mystery, manipulation and deception. Illustrating the emotionally harrowing with the heartwarming and sometimes humorous; he takes the reader on a journey from struggle to triumph, demonstrating an awe-inspiring ability to transform.
Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 146682784X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Destroying the World to Save It written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on ending it all. Since the earliest moments of recorded history, prophets and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to bring his prophecy to pass. Now Robert Jay Lifton offers a vivid and disturbing case in point in this chilling exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways. With unprecedented access to former Aum members, Lifton has produced a pathbreaking study of the inner life of a modern millennial cult. He shows how Aum's guru Shoko Asahara (charismatic spiritual leader, con man, madman) created a religion from a global stew of New Age thinking, ancient rituals, and apocalyptic science fiction, then recruited scientists as disciples and set them to producing weapons of mass destruction. Taking stock as well of Charles Manson, Heaven's Gate, and the Oklahoma City bombers, Lifton confronts the frightening possibility of a twenty-first century in which cults and terrorists may be able to bring about their own holocausts. Bold and compelling, Destroying the World to Save It charts the emergence of a new global threat of urgent concern to us all.
