World Famous Cults And Fanatics

Author : Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1858131006

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World Famous Cults and Fanatics by Wilson Pdf

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Magpie
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781780333304

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World Famous Cults and Fanatics by Colin Wilson Pdf

Dangerous madmen or divinely inspired prophets? From murdering religious sects like the Assassins and the Thugs, to the orgies of the little known Khlysty and the self-mutilations of the Skloptzi; including modern day killers like the vicious Manson Family and the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan - this book shows how cults and fanatics had such a powerful effect on the world.

Author : Colin Wilson,Damon Wilson,Rowan Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0752516329

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Cults and Fanatics by Colin Wilson,Damon Wilson,Rowan Wilson Pdf

Author : Guy Hayler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020874333

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Famous Fanatics by Guy Hayler Pdf

This book is a fascinating exploration of the lives and legacies of some of history's most intriguing fanatics, including political revolutionaries, religious zealots, and cult leaders. Drawing on historical accounts and psychological analysis, the author offers a nuanced account of these individuals, inviting readers to consider the thin line between passion and fanaticism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Conrad Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798674325086

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The World's Most Infamous Cults of All Time by Conrad Bauer Pdf

Discover the most infamous cults throughout history and how they left their mark on our World. Since the beginning of recorded history, there have been cults-shadowy organizations led by figures who rose up to teach beliefs that went against the mainstream and then, through sheer charisma and power of personality, managed to accumulate a group of fanatic followers. From ancient acolytes of syncretic religious systems such as Manichæism to more recent cults such as the People's Temple and Heaven's Gate, people have lived and died for belief systems that most of us view as being flawed-if not downright dangerous, deadly, and diabolical. How do these cults get such dedicated disciples? How are they so tightly organized and controlled? Just what is it that makes a cult-a cult? Come along with us as we answer these questions and many more. Get ready to be mesmerized, stupefied, and bewildered, folks, because here in this book we will take a look at some of the world's most infamous cults. Scroll back up and order your copy today!

Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826438904

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Exploring New Religions by George D. Chryssides Pdf

An objective, well-researched history of contemporary new religions and cults.New religious movements - popularly known as cults - arouse strong public opinion and most books on the subject are polemical, giving hostile reaction rather than informed exploration. Exploring New Religions provides an account of a wide variety of new religions, focusing on their origins, beliefs and practices, which are set out in a dispassionate way, leaving readers to form their own value judgements. George Chryssides provides important analysis of the killer cults-the Jonestown People's Temple, Waco, the Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate-examining the factors that made their followers willing to die for their cause. Older groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are discussed, and Chryssides traces the development of a variety of strands of spirituality, ranging from New Thought, Spiritualism and Theosophy. Subsequent chapters include the Baha'i, the Family (formerly Children of God), the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON), the Jesus Army, the Rastafarians, the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Unification Church ('the Moonies'). Lower profile groups are also discussed including: EST (Erhard Seminar Training), the New Kadampa Tradition, Brahma Kumaris, Sai Baba, Subud and the Western Buddhist Order. A study of the New Age phenomenon, and an account of societal responses to new religions at religious, societal and political levels is also included.

Author : Colin Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122980431

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Colin Wilson, the First Fifty Years by Colin Stanley Pdf

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of 'The Outsider', this comprehensive, annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources has been fully revised and updated, incorporating an author chronology and an exhaustive index. Aimed at scholars, collectors and fans worldwide it also includes details of non-English translations of Wilson's work.

Author : Amanda Montell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062993175

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Cultish by Amanda Montell Pdf

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 : Adam Morris
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781631492143

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American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation by Adam Morris Pdf

A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates, these charismatic, if flawed, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality, gender conformity, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.

Author : John Lofland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Free thought
ISBN : UCLA:L0081282071

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The Freethinker by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349953394

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Imagining Outer Space by Alexander C.T. Geppert Pdf

Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examines sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.

Author : Jack Sargeant
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cults
ISBN : 0753506440

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Death Cults by Jack Sargeant Pdf

The deadly belief systems of cults worldwide hold an immense fascination for those desperate enought to look for ' ultimate truths'. Throughout history, thousands of people have joined cults and committed acts of mind-boggling atrocity in the belief they would attain power or everlasting life. From the acid-drenched psychosis of the Manson Family to the primitive barbarism of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, the deluded followers of cults and their charismatic and megalomaniac leaders- have been responsible for history's most shocking and bizarre assassinations, slayings, and mass suicides.Jack Sargeant has compiled twelve in-depth essays from a variety of experts on this deadly phenomenon, The book includes cults about whom very little has previously been written, such as the Russian castration sect and the bizarre Japanese Aum doomsday cult which released sarin gas into Tokyo's subways,Read this volume and take a ride straight to hell!

Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0415274893

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The Discipline of Religion by Russell T. McCutcheon Pdf

This volume is a critical journey through religious studies in the 21st century, looking at its growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meaning.

Author : Paul Elliott
Publisher : Blandford Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0713725311

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Warrior Cults by Paul Elliott Pdf

This book examines and describes some of the world's most significant arcane cults which have been, throughout history, associated with atrocities which have often involved the use of magic, mysticism and secrecy. Terror and violence became their unmistakable hallmark. Each of these secret groups is looked at separately, enabling direct comparisons to be made between them. Uniting them all was a common philosophy of extreme violence and murder. There have been few periods in history, few civilizations or regions of the world that have not seen the rise of some obscure and close-knit cult. This book focuses primarily on the ancient and medieval worlds, and illustrates how the fanatical cult members often mirrored the world they inhabited, and how the establishment reacted to - and eventually destroyed - these organizations. Wherever and whenever they flourished, these warrior cults had their own strict codes and rituals, and today they provide a fascinating and disturbing insight into the perennial desire to unite for a single purpose. When combined with murderous and bloodthirsty compulsions, these groups become feared and reviled. In the modern world, with its equivalent proliferation of religious, political and criminal sects and organizations, Warrior Cults is a timely and intriguing source of reference and comparison.