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Doomsday Cult
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Author : John Lofland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Doomsday Cult written by John Lofland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Cult At The End Of The World
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Author : David E. Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1996
The Cult At The End Of The World written by David E. Kaplan and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Political Science categories.
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.
Doomsday Cults
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Author : iMinds
language : en
Publisher: iMinds Pty Ltd
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Doomsday Cults written by iMinds and has been published by iMinds Pty Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Religion categories.
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.
Heaven S Gate
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Author : Charles River
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-27
Heaven S Gate written by Charles River and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-27 with categories.
"Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion-'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew." To most people, it is almost impossible to understand the mere existence, let alone the baffling, yet indubitable appeal of doomsday cults, but they have been morbidly fascinating phenomena throughout history. The bizarre and often objectively comical beliefs of these offbeat denominations are so far removed from most people in society that even the horrific fates that befell the devoted disciples of the latter cults have repeatedly been reduced to cheap, throwaway punchlines. The phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid," for one, has become an overused expression regularly tossed around in playful banter, despite the fact it is a derogatory reference to the cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid ingested by 908 members (many of them children) of the Peoples Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana at the behest of their leader, Reverend Jim Jones, in 1978. David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians, had deep convictions based on the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation, and his sect believed the world was in the power of Satan and that the nations were merging to form a new Babylon. David hoped to establish the kingdom in Jerusalem, where, according to him, he would suffer martyrdom. The headquarters of the sect was a complex called Mount Carmel Center located in Waco, Texas. In the last manuscript produced by Koresh, which was preserved by a woman named Ruth Riddle who escaped the fire, the cult leader spoke extensively about his identity and the mystery of the Seven Seals. Koresh claimed to be the mysterious Lamb of Revelation who opens the sealed scroll, as well as the figure who rides the White Horse when the first seal is opened. While Waco remains notorious more for the federal agents' siege of Koresh's compound and the deaths of the Branch Davidians, it was followed a few years later by a mass suicide carried out by one of the most notorious doomsday cults in American history. On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near the top of the list of most outlandish end-of-the-world prophecies, and it was built on a blend of Christian, Gnostic, supernatural, New Age, and extraterrestrial lore. Although the cult did not speak in Christian terms, it was clearly apocalyptic, and its belief system was a strange mix between science fiction and the basic message of Revelation. The cult's leader, Marshall Applewhite, and his female companion, Bonnie Nettles, concluded that they were the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation 11:3-4: "And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the Earth." Applewhite believed the Earth would be transformed and renewed, and that evil entities (not beasts, but in this case, aliens) called Luciferans conspired against humanity. In his view, the elect members of Heaven's Gate would be taken up to a spaceship when the hour came. The opportunity to join the Rapture arrived with the passing of comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. Applewhite told his congregation that a spaceship was following the comet, and that the event would mark the closure of the gates of Heaven, making the spaceship the last opportunity to leave Earth. Over the course of three days, 39 members committed ritual mass suicide, all dressed identically, to be taken up by the UFO. Heaven's Gate: The History and Legacy of Marshall Applewhite's Notorious Doomsday Cult chronicles the notorious cult and the mass suicide. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Heaven's Gate like never before.
Doomsday Cults The Devil S Hostages
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Author : Rj Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-12
Doomsday Cults The Devil S Hostages written by Rj Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Religion categories.
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.
Doomsday Cult Story
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Author : Ward Osdoba
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-06-19
Doomsday Cult Story written by Ward Osdoba and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-19 with categories.
The author writes a gripping story about how a child is thrown into a doomsday cult, and ultimately gets out of the cult on his own. But this story is about so much more. The author goes into detail about how and why someone might choose to join a cult - what sucks them in and what keeps them coming back for more. And how this decision by a parent affects the child that is forced to go along with it, as well. But as if that's not enough, the child also has to deal with a broken home, where the other parent suffers from mental illness. Salo also goes into detail about the difficulties he faced in school, knowing that everyone thought he was strange, because of all his weird beliefs and rules that he must follow for his cult, known as the "House of Yahweh."
Doomsday Cults
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Author : Jonathan J. Moore
language : en
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Release Date : 2019-02-04
Doomsday Cults written by Jonathan J. Moore and has been published by New Holland Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-04 with Cults categories.
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.
Poison Into Medicine
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Author : Brandon Salo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-13
Poison Into Medicine written by Brandon Salo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-13 with categories.
"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.
The World In Flames
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Author : Jerald Walker
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2017-09-12
The World In Flames written by Jerald Walker and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames. The substantial membership was ruled by fear, intimidation, and threats. Anyone who dared leave the church would endure hardship for the remainder of this life and eternal suffering in the next. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the start of the Great Tribulation. Jerry would be eleven years old. Jerry’s parents were particularly vulnerable to the promise of relief from the world’s hardships. When they joined the church, in 1960, they were living in a two-room apartment in a dangerous Chicago housing project with the first four of their seven children, and, most significantly, they both were blind, having lost their sight to childhood accidents. They took comfort in the belief that they had been chosen for a special afterlife, even if it meant following a religion with a white supremacist ideology and dutifully sending tithes to Armstrong, whose church boasted more than 100,000 members and more than $80 million in annual revenues at its height. When the prophecy of the 1972 Great Tribulation does not materialize, Jerry is considerably less disappointed than relieved. When the 1975 end-time prophecy also fails, he finally begins to question his faith and imagine the possibility of choosing a destiny of his own.
Doomsday Cults
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Author : Warren Alan R. (author)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
Doomsday Cults written by Warren Alan R. (author) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.
