Moonwebs

Author : Josh Freed
Publisher : Signal Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Brainwashing
ISBN : 0919890938

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Moonwebs by Josh Freed Pdf

n Moonwebs, award-winning journalist Josh Freed penetrates the complex and frightening world of modern day cults. He describes the incredible efforts made by friends to extricate their friend Benji Miller from the grasp of cult leader Sun Myung Moon. When friends and family risked thousands of dollars and criminal charges to kidnap Benji and deprogram him, author Josh Freed was with them. He conveys the terrifying power of the Unification Church by describing their harrowing brainwashing techniques. When first published Moonwebs sold 70,000 copies. Véhicule Press is pleased to bring this gripping case study, which reveals the growing political and financial empire of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, back into print.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Psychohistory
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013454124

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The Psychohistory Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015021469500

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Canadian Book Review Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phillip Charles Lucas,Thomas Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135889012

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New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century by Phillip Charles Lucas,Thomas Robbins Pdf

New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent NRM scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first century. An introduction by Tom Robbins provides an overview of the major issues and themes discussed in the book.

Author : Susan J. Palmer,Martin Geoffroy,Paul L. Gareau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030330620

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The Mystical Geography of Quebec by Susan J. Palmer,Martin Geoffroy,Paul L. Gareau Pdf

This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine groups—including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various “Catholic” schisms, such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or the reappearance of the Virgin Mary. Eleven contributing authors offer rich ethnographies and sociological insights on new spiritual groups that highlight the quintessential features of Quebec's new religions (“sectes” in the francophone media). The editors argue that Quebec provides a favorable “ecology” for alternative spirituality, and explore the influences behind this situation: the rapid decline of the Catholic Church after Vatican Il; the “Quiet Revolution,” a utopian faith in Science; the 1975 Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; and an open immigration that welcomes diverse faiths. The themes of Quebec nationalism found in prophetic writings that fuel apocalyptic ferment are explored by the editors who find in these sectarian communities echoes of Quebec’s larger Sovereignty movement.

Author : Seth Feldman
Publisher : Toronto, Canada : Irwin Pub.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037716375

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Take Two by Seth Feldman Pdf

Author : Josh Freed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Brainwashing
ISBN : 0920528279

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Moon Webs by Josh Freed Pdf

Author : Josh Freed,Jon Kalina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015060401919

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The Anglo Guide to Survival in Québec by Josh Freed,Jon Kalina Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261743

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victoria Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674069602

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Gothicka by Victoria Nelson Pdf

The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives. To explain this millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic-the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Women
ISBN : 0253346886

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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism by Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon Pdf

A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Author : Irving Hexham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429978326

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New Religions As Global Cultures by Irving Hexham Pdf

Although the Great Anti-Cult Crusade links new religious movements to dangerous cults, brainwashing, and the need for deprogramming, Karla Poewe and Irving Hexham argue that many cults are the product of a dynamic interaction between folk religions and the teachings of traditional world religions. Drawing on examples from Africa, the United States, Asia, and Europe, they suggest that few new religions are really new. Most draw on rich, if localized, cultural traditions that are shaped anew by the influence of technological change and international linkages. With the widespread loss of belief in biblical mythology in the nineteenth century, new mythologies based on science and elements derived from various non-Western religious traditions emerged, leading to the growth and popularity of new religions and cults.

Author : Roy H. Blunden
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781525587481

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A Witches' Canon Part 2 by Roy H. Blunden Pdf

An Exploration of the Traditional Witchcraft Coven, its Organization and Rituals, including Initiations, Rites of Passage, Magical and Social practices. The truth is, “Old” Gerald B. Gardner had little interest in how the Traditional Witchcraft Coven had been organized and structured. So apart from an example of how it should not be done, he passed on little information about how it was meant to be organized. That knowledge of how best to organize and structure a modern Coven has had to be reclaimed from the old records and by trial and error. So too the social Rites of Passage; those of birth, marriage and death that were all long since appropriated by the religious authorities have likewise needed to be restored. As too the traditional forms of Coven Magic and Healings, whilst still keeping Witchcraft ever the religion of Dance, Fun and Mirth. After all, who said that religion is not to be enjoyed? A Witches’ Canon, Part 1, provides a fact-based referenced guide for those wishing to further explore the Religion and Celebratory Rituals of Traditional Wicca. A Witches’ Canon, Part 2, has been written to provide a practical, referenced guide to the social aspects of Traditional Wicca; of Coven Organization, Initiations, Rites and Rituals. A Witches’ Canon, Part 3, is a fact-based referenced guide to the practice of Magical Witchcraft, both nice and naughty. If it isn’t fun, then it ain’t worth doing.

Author : Peter Rist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313017254

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Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada by Peter Rist Pdf

This new volume in the Greenwood Press series Reference Guides to the World's Cinema discusses the films and personalities of the Canadian cinema. This guide encompasses the diverse output of both the English and French Canadian communities and includes 175 films and 125 filmmakers and actors. Alphabetically arranged entries discuss important films, actors, directors, shorts, and a number of experimental films. With few exceptions, films are included only if their production company was incorporated in Canada. Similarly, filmmakers and actors represent people who have worked primarily in Canada. This guide will interest scholars, students, and film buffs. Brief bibliographies after each entry provide sources for further reading. Three appendixes provide additional information regarding Canadian born filmmakers and actors excluded from the main text, winners of Canadian film awards, and a listing of the top ten Canadian films.

Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009062282

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The Christian Countercult Movement by Douglas E. Cowan Pdf

Many seemingly strange questions on yoga, salvation, religious pluralism, and so forth have been actively debated among members of a small but influential group of evangelical apologists known as the Christian countercult movement. This Element explores the history of this movement from its origins in the anti-heresy writings of the early church to its modern development as a reaction to religious pluralism in North America. It contrasts the apologetic Christian countercult movement with its secular anticult counterpart and explains how faith-based opposition both to new religious movements and to non-Christian religions will only deepen as religious pluralism increases. It provides a concise understanding of the two principal goals of Christian countercult apologetics: support for the evangelization of non-Christian believers and maintenance for the perceived superiority of the evangelical Christian worldview.