Sects Cults And Spiritual Communities

Author : Marc Petrowsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390827
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities written by Marc Petrowsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American society is culturally diverse with a variety of religious denominations, sects, cults, and self-help groups vying for members. This volume analyzes nine of these groups, chosen both for their intrinsic interest and because they illustrate a variety of sociological concepts. The groups included in this study are: Heaven's Gate, Jesus People USA, the Love Family, The Farm, Amish Women, Scientology, El Niño Fidencio, Santería, and Freedom Park. The contributors are social scientists with first-hand knowledge of the groups they examine.

Author : Roger E. Olson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666765082
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unsafe Sects written by Roger E. Olson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some decades American (and other) culture has been obsessed with cults. But what does "cult" mean? How should a religious group be identified as a cult? Who joins cults and why? These and other questions are answered in this book. It provides a basic introduction to cults, "unsafe sects," especially from an orthodox Christian perspective. Here readers will also find accounts of the author's personal experiences of cults.

Author : Robert Ellwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138465213
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America written by Robert Ellwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the major new or unconventional religions and spiritual movements in America that exist outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Author : Amanda Montell
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062993178
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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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 : Rodney Stark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341341
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Religion written by Rodney Stark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future, This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985. Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education,

Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America written by Robert S. Ellwood and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the deviancy from Judaeo-Christian teachings and practices found in America and examines the role and impact of religious movements that have emerged in modern times.

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615927387
Total Pages : 951 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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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 : Bryan R. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Sects written by Bryan R. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gaius Glenn Atkins
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Religious Cults and Movements written by Gaius Glenn Atkins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Modern Religious Cults and Movements' is a timeless classic that continues to be praised despite the abundance of literature on the subject. The author, Atkins, delves into the Catholic and Protestant traditions, followed by the recent developments that led to Christian Science. He examines this religion in great detail, including its philosophy, theology, system of healing, and religion. Atkins also explores the "new thought" and "new age" movements, which eventually led to a discussion on Eastern religion and Theosophy. This is a period piece that will appeal to historians and students of American religion.

Author : John A. Saliba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429662904
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Science and the Cults written by John A. Saliba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture, focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture. Other sections examine the methodology of studying religious movements and the various theories which have been brought to explain them, current studies on traditional sects that are sometimes compared to the new religions, and many studies of individual contemporary cults.