Exploring New ReligionsCassell, 1999 - 405 pages 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. |
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... Dianetics auditor , or else a pair of Dianetics students can simply use Hubbard's book Dianetics and audit each other by using the procedures that it prescribes . Auditing differs from the kind of counselling that is carried out by ...
... Dianetics auditor , or else a pair of Dianetics students can simply use Hubbard's book Dianetics and audit each other by using the procedures that it prescribes . Auditing differs from the kind of counselling that is carried out by ...
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... Dianetics that addresses the eighth dynamic : Dianetics , rather , prepares the individual to reach a state where he or she can apprehend the God dynamic , an exploration of which awaits the OT levels which properly belong to ...
... Dianetics that addresses the eighth dynamic : Dianetics , rather , prepares the individual to reach a state where he or she can apprehend the God dynamic , an exploration of which awaits the OT levels which properly belong to ...
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... Dianetics and Scientology make it more of a business company than a spiritual community . Second , critics will sometimes allege that Dianetics and Scientology look more like pop psychology or amateur advice for educators and students ...
... Dianetics and Scientology make it more of a business company than a spiritual community . Second , critics will sometimes allege that Dianetics and Scientology look more like pop psychology or amateur advice for educators and students ...
Contents
The suicide cults 33 1 | 33 |
The old new religions | 77 |
The New Christian movements | 120 |
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