Cults : secret sects and false prophets
(2007)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
209/SCHROEDER,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 209/SCHROEDER,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
London : Carlton, 2007
DESCRIPTION

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781844428793 (hbk.), 1844428796 (hbk.), 9781844428793, 1844428796
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

CULTS OF THE ANCIENTS. Ancient cults and secret caverns -- The cult of the sacred tree -- Osiris and the cult of the dead (+ Akhenaten) -- Cults of Judaism ( + Essenic culture and belief) -- Gnostics and other Christian cults (+ The Nag Hammadi Library & heretics) -- Attis and Cybele (+ The Day of Blood) -- Ancient orgiastic cults (+ Dionysiac cults & rites) -- The Eleusinian mysteries (+ hymn to Demeter, Roman rites) -- Artemis at Ephesus -- The cult of the bull (+ the minotaur) -- Mithraism -- The death cults of Mexico -- The Celtic Druids -- RADICAL RELIONS AND MYSTERIOUS SECTS. The Christian radicals (+ The Waldensians, The Catharists) -- Voodoo -- Knights Templar and others (+ The Rosicrucians, The SRIA) -- Quakers and Mormons -- Doom is nigh! (The Plymouth Brethren, Seventh Day Adventists, Exclusive Brethren) -- Christian Scientists (The First Church of Christ, Scientist) -- The modern Christian road (+ Opus Dei, The Blue Army of Mary, Knights of Columbus, Knights of St. Columbia) -- Wicca and modern druids -- The horseman's word -- The Children of God, or The Family -- The People's Temple (Jonestown) -- The Branch Davidian -- The Temple of the Sun (mass suicide) -- The Rajneeshis (sex, drugs, and mind-numbing meditation) -- Japan's Dark Forces -- The Patriots (+ The Panic Project) -- The Nine O'Clock Service -- Scientologists -- The Moonies -- The Exit Road -- SATANIC SECTS. The First Black Magicians -- The Hammers Against Heresy (+ The Papal Inquisition, Malleus Maleficarum) -- The Sabatic Goat -- (+ Eliphas Levi) -- Black Magicians and The Black Mass -- The Hellfire Clubs -- Aleister Crowley: The Great Beast (+ Ordo Templi Orientis) -- The Witches of Salem -- Ritual Killers from Death Valley -- Anton Szandor La Vey and Maddalena Stradivari -- Satanism and Devil Worship Today -- LEADERS, PROPHETS, AND GURUS. Trumpeters of Doom (The Judge, Charles Taze Russell of Jehovah's Witness) -- Charles Manson -- Lafayette Ronald Hubbard -- The Swamis of Hare Krishna -- Swami Rajneesh -- The Messiah of Waco -- David Berg -- Shoko Asahara -- Jim Jones -- Knights of the Sun (Joseph di Mambro, Luc Jonet) -- Sun Myung Moon -- Warren Steed Jeffs -- CULTS OF THE MILLENNIUM AND BEYOND. The return of Aum (+ Shoko Asahara) -- Do and Ti (Heaven's Gate Movement, Marshall Applewhite) -- Chen Tao -- Concerned Christians -- Jesus Army and Fellowship Church -- The Raëlians -- The Apotheosis of Elvis -- Ahl Us-Sunnah Wal-Jammaa'ah --Tablighi Jamaat

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