American Cult A Graphic History Of Religious Cults In America From The Colonial Era To Today

Author : Robyn Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1945509775

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American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today by Robyn Chapman Pdf

NOW AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER!From its earliest days, America was a home for spiritual seekers. In 1694, the religious tolerance of the Pennsylvania Colony enticed a Transylvanian monk and his forty followers to cross the Atlantic. Almost two hundred years later, a charismatic preacher founded a utopian community in Oneida, New York, that practiced socialism and free love. In the 1960s and '70s, a new generation of seekers gathered in vegetarian restaurants in Los Angeles, Satanic coffee shops in New Orleans, and fortified communes in Philadelphia. And in the twenty-first century, gurus find their flocks through self-help seminars and get-rich-quick schemes.Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathydigging deep to find the human stories within.

Author : Robyn Chapman
Publisher : Silver Sprocket
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1945509635

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American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today by Robyn Chapman Pdf

From its earliest days, America was a home for spiritual seekers. In 1694, the religious tolerance of the Pennsylvania Colony enticed a Transylvanian monk and his forty followers to cross the Atlantic. Almost two hundred years later, a charismatic preacher founded a utopian community in Oneida, New York, that practiced socialism and free love. In the 1960s and '70s, a new generation of seekers gathered in vegetarian restaurants in Los Angeles, Satanic coffee shops in New Orleans, and fortified communes in Philadelphia. And in the twenty-first century, gurus find their flocks through self-help seminars and get-rich-quick schemes. Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy--digging deep to find the human stories within.

Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135540050

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Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America by J. Gordon Melton Pdf

Covers the history, founders, beliefs, and literature of over five hundred nonconventional and alternative religious movements.

Author : Vladimir Mayakovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015062844306

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My Discovery of America by Vladimir Mayakovsky Pdf

"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David G. Bromley,Anson D. Shupe
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807011096

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Strange Gods by David G. Bromley,Anson D. Shupe Pdf

Examines in detail the history, fundraising, and possible use of brainwashing by such religious cults as the Unification Church, People's Temple, and Hare Krishnas

Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217490

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Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition by Joseph E. Holloway Pdf

A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046505544

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Cults in America by James R. Lewis Pdf

This volume examines the controversy surrounding the alternative and controversial religious movements sometimes referred to as cults. Featuring a chronology that documents the milestones in the evolution of alternative religions, this book also contains informative sketches of alternative religious groups in the United States today. Readers will find an overview that discusses the cult controversy; descriptions of important court cases, legislation, and other documents; and a directory of organizations. A comprehensive listing of print and electronic sources completes a volume that will prove beneficial to general readers, students, parents, psychologists, and policymakers.

Author : T.S. Sullivant
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781683963646

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A Cockeyed Menagerie by T.S. Sullivant Pdf

The long-overdue, definitive career retrospective of an early-20th-century gag cartoonist. From the 1880s to the Roaring 1920s, Sullivant took to the drawing board and dreamed up all manner of hilarious gag cartoons featuring animals of all stripes, perennial American "types" like hayseeds and hobos, and classic characters from myths and biblical tales. These comics haven’t seen the light of day since their initial appearance in pioneering humor magazines like Puck and Judge over a century ago. Includes essays by John Cuneo, Peter de Seve, Barry Blitt, Steve Brodner, Rick Marshall, Nancy Beiman, and R.C. Harvey, with a foreword by cartoonist Jim Woodring.

Author : Charles Wright Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Cults
ISBN : WISC:89097231500

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The New Books of Revelations by Charles Wright Ferguson Pdf

Author : John Redwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0500278857

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Reason, Ridicule, and Religion by John Redwood Pdf

This study, with its examination of the lives and works of Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, George Berkley, John Locke and other Enlightenment scholars, rejects the idea that the early modern period was marked by a triumph of reason or that it should be seen as a simple battle between science and religion. The more far-reaching debate is focused on one great theme: the questioning of God's place and significance in the cosmos - and the threats that this doubt appeared to pose for the whole of society.

Author : Jonathan Brooks Platt
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822981428

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Greetings, Pushkin! by Jonathan Brooks Platt Pdf

In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin’s death. Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and feverish pitch of the Pushkin festival was unprecedented. Greetings, Pushkin! presents the first in-depth study of this historic event and follows its manifestations in art, literature, popular culture, education, and politics, while also examining its philosophical underpinnings. Jonathan Brooks Platt looks deeply into the motivations behind the Soviet glorification of a long-dead poet—seemingly at odds with the October Revolution’s radical break with the past. He views the Pushkin celebration as a conjunction of two opposing approaches to time and modernity: monumentalism, which points to specific moments and individuals as the origin point for cultural narratives, and eschatology, which glorifies ruptures in the chain of art or thought and the destruction of canons. In the midst of the Great Purge, the Pushkin jubilee was a critical element in the drive toward a nationalist discourse that attempted to unify and subsume the disparate elements of the Soviet Union, supporting the move to “socialism in one country.”

Author : Lyn Millner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813059433

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The Allure of Immortality by Lyn Millner Pdf

Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books About Cults For five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers, the Koreshans, waited for signs that he was coming back to life. They watched hieroglyphics emerge on his skin and observed what looked like the formation of a third arm. They saw his belly fall and rise with breath, even though his swollen tongue sealed his mouth. As his corpse turned black, they declared that their leader was transforming into the Egyptian god Horus. Teed was a charismatic and controversial guru who at the age of 30 had been "illuminated" by an angel in his electro-alchemical laboratory. At the turn of the twentieth century, surrounded by the marvels of the Second Industrial Revolution, he proclaimed himself a prophet and led 200 people out of Chicago and into a new age. Or so he promised. The Koreshans settled in a mosquito-infested scrubland and set to building a communal utopia inside what they believed was a hollow earth--with humans living on the inside crust and the entire universe contained within. According to Teed’s socialist and millennialist teachings, if his people practiced celibacy and focused their love on him, he would return after death and they would all become immortal. Was Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? Why did his promises and his theory of "cellular cosmogony" persuade so many? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed's life and those of his followers into a riveting story of angels, conmen, angry husbands, yellow journalism, and ultimately, hope.

Author : Robert Emmet Long
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032607809

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Religious Cults in America by Robert Emmet Long Pdf

Discusses the different religious cults in the U.S., and focuses on the 1993 incident involving the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas

Author : James Beaufoy
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781785000973

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Staffordshire Bull Terriers by James Beaufoy Pdf

Books in the Practical Guide for Owners and Breeders series explore in detail all aspects of owning and caring for individual breeds of dog. They include information on the Breed standard; choosing a puppy or rescue dog; care at every stage of life - from puppy through to the elderly dog; diet and training; healthcare and breed-specific health issues; breeding and whelping and, finally, showing. Author James Beaufoy covers the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and written in an accessible style, this book focuses on providing practical information about caring for your Staffordshire Bull Terrier, and will be an essential resource for all dog owners and professionals. This practical guide focuses on providing information about caring for your Staffordshire Bull Terrier and is an essential resource for all STB owners, breeders and show judges. Superbly illustrated with 198 colour photographs.

Author : Robert Schroeder
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1787392686

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The History of Cults by Robert Schroeder Pdf

A compelling and sometimes disturbing look into more than 50 mysterious cults, complete with stories from ex-members and profiles of their often-enigmatic leaders. With a decline in organized religion and an explosion in social-media followers and factions, our interest in cults, sects, and radical religions continues unabated. While groups such as the Moonies or the Children of God have been dismissed as harmless, the mass suicides, atrocities, attacks, extremist rhetoric, and spiraling wealth and power of some of the more recent movements suggest a darker side. Robert Schro der places 50 ancient and modern cults--from Osiris and the Knights Templar to the Branch Davidian, Hellfire Clubs, Manson "family," Jonestown, Concerned Christians, Jesus Army, Rajneeshis, and The Apotheosis of Elvis--in historical and cultural context, tracing their existence back to the earliest days of mankind. Investigating the essence of their continued appeal through the experiences of ex-members and explorations of their leaders, he provides compelling and sometimes disturbing insight into these shadowy societies. This edition is fully updated to reflect the aftermath of the millennium, the rise of extremism, and the influence of the internet age.