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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > General

Shutting the Door to the Kingdom of God (Hardcover): Eric Michael Wilson Shutting the Door to the Kingdom of God (Hardcover)
Eric Michael Wilson
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Followers - Holy Hell and the Disciples of Narcissistic Leaders: How My Years in a Notorious Cult Parallel Today's... The Followers - Holy Hell and the Disciples of Narcissistic Leaders: How My Years in a Notorious Cult Parallel Today's Cultural Mania (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Radhia Gleis
R820 R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Have You Lived Before This Life? - 42 Reincarnation Session Protocols of the Scientific Dianetics (Hardcover): Andreas M B Gross Have You Lived Before This Life? - 42 Reincarnation Session Protocols of the Scientific Dianetics (Hardcover)
Andreas M B Gross
R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Masters and Slaves of Modern Religion (Hardcover): Geoffrey Hebdon Masters and Slaves of Modern Religion (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Hebdon
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Demise of Religion - How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate (Hardcover): Michael Stausberg, Carole M. Cusack, Stuart A. Wright The Demise of Religion - How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate (Hardcover)
Michael Stausberg, Carole M. Cusack, Stuart A. Wright
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this open access book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International contributors provide case studies from the United States, England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution; the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018 after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves the way for future research The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Ordinarily Sarah - Book Ii: Relentless (Hardcover): Sarah Elizabeth Rose Ordinarily Sarah - Book Ii: Relentless (Hardcover)
Sarah Elizabeth Rose
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rosicrucian Magic - A Reader on Becoming Alike to the Angelic Mind (Hardcover): Frater Acher Rosicrucian Magic - A Reader on Becoming Alike to the Angelic Mind (Hardcover)
Frater Acher
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Narrow Path - Escaping the Grips of Deception While Discovering His Way, Life and Truth (Hardcover): Tara Chelioudakis The Narrow Path - Escaping the Grips of Deception While Discovering His Way, Life and Truth (Hardcover)
Tara Chelioudakis
R631 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Free Zone Scientology - Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion (Hardcover): Aled Thomas Free Zone Scientology - Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion (Hardcover)
Aled Thomas
R3,376 Discovery Miles 33 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Scientologist practice of 'auditing' as a case study, this book explores the ways in which new types of 'Scientologies' can emerge. The notion of Free Zone Scientology is characterised by its horizontal structure, in contrast to the vertical-hierarchy of the institutional Church of Scientology. With this in mind, Thomas explores the Free Zone as an example of a developing and fluid religion, directly addressing questions concerning authority, leadership and material objects. This book, by maintaining a double-focus on the top-down hierarchy of the Church of Scientology and the horizontal-fluid nature of the Free Zone, breaks away from previous research on new religions, with have tended to focus either on new religions as indices of broad social processes, such as secularization or globalization, or as exemplars of exotic processes, such as charismatic authority and brainwashing. Instead, Thomas adopts auditing as a method of providing an in-depth case study of a new religion in transition and transformation in the 21st century. This opens the study of contemporary and new religions to a series of new questions around hybrid religions (sacred and secular), and acts as a framework for the study of similar movements formed in recent decades.

Mystic Masonry or the Symbols of Freemasonry and the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity (Hardcover): J.D. Buck Mystic Masonry or the Symbols of Freemasonry and the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity (Hardcover)
J.D. Buck; Created by Indo American Book Company
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 3 (Hardcover): John H. Elliott Beware the Evil Eye Volume 3 (Hardcover)
John H. Elliott
R1,539 R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Save R270 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Advanced Methodologies (Hardcover): William Grassie Advanced Methodologies (Hardcover)
William Grassie
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Laconics of Cult (Hardcover): Ingersoll Lockwood Laconics of Cult (Hardcover)
Ingersoll Lockwood
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Voices Are Alive (Hardcover): Louis Bruno The Voices Are Alive (Hardcover)
Louis Bruno
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rediscovering Genesis (Hardcover): Gerald Ostroot Rediscovering Genesis (Hardcover)
Gerald Ostroot
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pagan Family Values - Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism (Hardcover, New): S. Zohreh... Pagan Family Values - Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism (Hardcover, New)
S. Zohreh Kermani
R3,103 Discovery Miles 31 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second-generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family Values, S. Zohreh Kermani explores the ways in which North American Pagan families pass on their beliefs to their children, and how the effort to socialize children influences this new religious movement. The first ethnographic study of the everyday lives of contemporary Pagan families, this volume brings their experiences into conversation with contemporary issues in American religion. Through formal interviews with Pagan families, participant observation at various pagan events, and data collected via online surveys, Kermani traces the ways in which Pagan parents transmit their religious values to their children. Rather than seeking to pass along specific religious beliefs, Pagan parents tend to seek to instill values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, that will remain with their children throughout their lives, regardless of these children's ultimate religious identifications. Pagan parents tend to construct an idealized, magical childhood for their children that mirrors their ideal childhoods. The socialization of children thus becomes a means by which adults construct and make meaningful their own identities as Pagans. Kermani's meticulous fieldwork and clear, engaging writing provide an illuminating look at parenting and religious expression in Pagan households and at how new religions pass on their beliefs to a new generation.

Psychic Blackmail (Hardcover): Kenneth Ray Worden Psychic Blackmail (Hardcover)
Kenneth Ray Worden
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Cult Experience (Hardcover): Andrew Pavlos The Cult Experience (Hardcover)
Andrew Pavlos
R1,936 Discovery Miles 19 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scientology in Popular Culture - Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy (Hardcover): Stephen A. Kent, Susan Raine Scientology in Popular Culture - Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy (Hardcover)
Stephen A. Kent, Susan Raine
R2,277 Discovery Miles 22 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This multidisciplinary study of Scientology examines the organization and the controversies around it through the lens of popular culture, referencing movies, television, print, and the Internet-an unusual perspective that will engage a wide range of readers and researchers. For more than 60 years, Scientology has claimed alternative religious status with a significant number of followers, despite its portrayals in popular culture domains as being bizarre. What are the reasons for the vital connections between Scientology and popular culture that help to maintain or challenge it as an influential belief system? This book is the first academic treatment of Scientology that examines the movement in a popular-culture context from the perspective of several Western countries. It documents how the attention paid to Scientology by high-profile celebrities and its mention in movies, television, and print as well as on the Internet results in millions of people being aware of the organization-to the religious organization's benefit and detriment. The book leads with a background on Scientology and a discussion of science fiction concepts, pulps, and movies. The next section examines Scientology's ongoing relationship with the Hollywood elite, including the group's use of celebrities in its drug rehabilitation program, and explores movies and television shows that contain Scientology themes or comedic references. Readers will learn about how the Internet and the mainstream media of the United States as well as of Australia, Germany, and the UK have regarded Scientology. The final section investigates the music and art of Scientology. Discusses Scientology within the framework of popular culture, which is how most people outside the religion come in contact with it Approaches the study of Scientology from multiple viewpoints, enabling readers to have an informed, multicultural perspective on the religious group's beliefs and practices from which to form their own opinion Presents information about Scientology derived from one of the largest university archive collections on the subject worldwide, with a number of documents never before having been referenced in scholarship

Truth and Proof for the Christian Worldview a Comprehensive Summary of Christian Apologetics - The Who and Why Behind the... Truth and Proof for the Christian Worldview a Comprehensive Summary of Christian Apologetics - The Who and Why Behind the Question, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (Hardcover)
Kelly J Walters
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Reader in New Religious Movements - Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements (Hardcover): George D. Chryssides,... A Reader in New Religious Movements - Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements (Hardcover)
George D. Chryssides, Margaret Wilkins
R6,668 Discovery Miles 66 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There are over 600 New Religious Movements (NRMs) in Great Britain alone, and more than 2000 in the United States. A Reader in New Religious Movements aims to provide an introduction to the main teachings of a selection of these organizations, focusing on those which are well-established in the West. The contemporary - and in some cases controversial -- NRMs covered include The Unification Church, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, The Family, Osho, Soka Gakkai International and the Western Buddhist Order.

Not My Guru (Hardcover): Parvati Hill Not My Guru (Hardcover)
Parvati Hill
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
New Religious Movements: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover, New): Paul Oliver New Religious Movements: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover, New)
Paul Oliver
R3,369 Discovery Miles 33 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

New Religious Movements: A Guide for the Perplexed examines the phenomenon of new faiths and alternative spiritualities which has become a feature of the contemporary world. Those interested in the spiritual dimension to life are no longer limited to the major world faiths, but can draw upon a rapidly-expanding range of new religions. Some of these are derived from the major religions, some are a re-working of ancient traditions, while others signify a completely new departure in spiritual experience. This book analyses the concepts we use to discuss new religions, and surveys a range of different movements which were established in the second half of the 20th century. Paul Oliver explores the organization of the movements, and the psychological aspects of life within them; the distribution of power and authority within movements; the position of women in relation to such organizations, and finally, the nature of the evolution and expansion of such movements in relation to post-modern society. This book is ideal for students wishing to understand the more perplexing elements of this contemporary phenomenon. >

Revolt in the Stars - Dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, Star Wars, Galactic coup d'etat, Revolt in the stars and... Revolt in the Stars - Dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, Star Wars, Galactic coup d'etat, Revolt in the stars and OT III by L. Ron Hubbard, all the same history! (Hardcover)
Andreas M B Gross
R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vixen - From Mormon Convert to LDS Apostate (Hardcover): Lindsay Helm Vixen - From Mormon Convert to LDS Apostate (Hardcover)
Lindsay Helm
R739 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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