Doomsday Cult

Author : John Lofland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Cults
ISBN : UCAL:B4251468

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Doomsday Cult by John Lofland Pdf

In the years since Doomsday Cult was first published, much has happened to the movement. This enlarged edition brings us up to the present. Doomsday Cult analyzes the first five years in America (1959-1964) of an obscure end-of-the-world religion that went on to become nationally and internationally famous in the 1970s. The movement went from identification as a small and laughable bunch of kooks to public definition as a powerful and nefarious social force that had to be countered. Such a truly dramatic change in the status of a movement (and the activities of the movement itself) demands the question: Why and how did it happen? The change provides an important opportunity, moreover, to increase our understanding of the dynamics of social movements more generally: their resource mobilization, internal organization, strategies, citizen responses to them and the like. These topics are discussed in the Epilogue to the Enlarged Edition, added since the original edition was published. - Preface to the enlarged edition.

Author : Leon Festinger,Stanley Schachter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781625589774

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When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger,Stanley Schachter Pdf

The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.

Author : iMinds
Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781921798498

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Doomsday Cults by iMinds Pdf

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 : Alan R R Warren
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798651834068

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Doomsday Cults by Alan R R Warren Pdf

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. The Order of the Solar Temple lured the rich and famous, including Princess Grace of Monaco, and convinced them to die a fiery death now on Earth to be reborn on a better planet called Sirius. Charles Manson convinced his followers to kill, in an attempt to incite an apocalyptic race war. These are a few of the doomsday cults examined in this book by bestselling author Alan R. Warren. Its focus is on cults whose destructive behavior was due in large part to their apocalyptic beliefs or doomsday movements. It includes details surrounding the massacres and a look into how their members became so brainwashed they committed unimaginable crimes at the command of their leader.Usually, when we hear about these cults and their massacres, we ask ourselves how it possibly happened. We could also ask ourselves, what then is the difference between a cult and a religion? We once had a small group of people who unquestionably followed a person who believed he was the son of God. Two thousand years later, that following is one of the most recognized religions in the world. This book in no way criticizes believing in God. Rather, it examines how a social movement grows into a full religion and when it does not. And what makes the conventional faiths such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism stand above groups such as the Branch Davidians or Children of God.

Author : David E. Kaplan,Andrew Marshall
Publisher : Crown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038549930

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The Cult at the End of the World by David E. Kaplan,Andrew Marshall Pdf

The brave new age of postmillennium terror is awakening and its harbinger is Aum Supreme Truth: a Japan-based global web of wired, technically expert New Age zealots armed with biologial weapons, driven by an apocalyptic vision of unprecedented destruction. With compelling immediacy, this book tells the terrifying story the cult reponsible for the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, offering a revealing profile of its founder and leader, Shoko Asahara.

Author : David E. Kaplan,Andrew Marshall
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Armageddon
ISBN : 0099728516

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The Cult at the End of the World by David E. Kaplan,Andrew Marshall Pdf

Author : James Tower
Publisher : Marc Charles
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : End of the world
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Doomsday Diary by James Tower Pdf

The Doomsday Diary is not about a political or religious event. It's a lighthearted, informative book with relevant, tipping point ideas about how to thrive and prosper on the final day or if things get really bad.

Author : Brandon Salo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736402404

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Poison Into Medicine by Brandon Salo Pdf

"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 : Rj Parker,Alan R. Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 198790253X

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Doomsday Cults: The Devil's Hostages by Rj Parker,Alan R. Warren Pdf

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. The Order of the Solar Temple lured the rich and famous, including Princess Grace of Monaco, and convinced them to die a fiery death now on Earth to be reborn on a better planet called Sirius. Charles Manson convinced his followers to kill, in an attempt to incite an apocalyptic race war. These are a few of the doomsday cults examined in this book by bestselling author Alan R. Warren. Its focus is on cults whose destructive behavior was due in large part to their apocalyptic beliefs or doomsday movements. It includes details surrounding the massacres and a look into how their members became so brainwashed they committed unimaginable crimes at the command of their leader. Usually, when we hear about these cults and their massacres, we ask ourselves how it possibly happened. We could also ask ourselves, what then is the difference between a cult and a religion? We once had a small group of people who unquestionably followed a person who believed he was the son of God. Two thousand years later, that following is one of the most recognized religions in the world. This book in no way criticizes believing in God. Rather, it examines how a social movement grows into a full religion and when it does not. And what makes the conventional faiths such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism stand above groups such as the Branch Davidians or Children of God.

Author : Catalin Negru
Publisher : Catain Negru
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A History of the Apocalypse by Catalin Negru Pdf

Religion. For thousands of years this thing has dictated which people should live and which people should die, what shape our buildings should have or what colors our garments should contain, what food people should eat or what words people should speak. If religion is the opium of the masses, then beliefs about the end of the world are like overdoses. People touched by such beliefs no longer rely on a hidden, personal and intimate god, contemplated upon from the safe distance of the beating human heart. They live with the promise of divine intervention at a grand scale on the current coordinates of space and time. This can be an exceptional motivator and a game changer in terms of civil obedience, both at an individual and collective level. In the name of an immediate and palpable deity people can commit shocking cruelties. However, such belief can also account for some of the most exceptional social developments in human history.

Author : Jonathan J. Moore
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Cults
ISBN : 1760790877

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Doomsday Cults by Jonathan J. Moore Pdf

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 : Leon Festinger,Henry W Riecken,Stanley Schachter
Publisher : Start Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9798880924769

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When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger,Henry W Riecken,Stanley Schachter Pdf

The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions.That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.

Author : Pete Schauer
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766076112

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The People Behind Cult Murders by Pete Schauer Pdf

High school psychology students will read about what motivates the criminals behind cult murders. After introducing the wide range of cults that exist in the world, this book focuses on those cults that often feature violence, abuse, ritual death, and mass murder. Religious, doomsday, and terrorist cults are just some of the cults covered in this detailed book. Historical accounts of cult murders are followed by descriptions of the psychology of the minds of cult leaders and followers.

Author : Robert L. Snow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313057618

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Deadly Cults by Robert L. Snow Pdf

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 : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375725807

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Underground by Haruki Murakami Pdf

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.