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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Page 72
... God was at hand , and that the human race should prepare itself by renouncing worldly possessions and following him ... gods , and such false views have given rise to polytheism . Eastern religions , especially those which posit a ...
... God was at hand , and that the human race should prepare itself by renouncing worldly possessions and following him ... gods , and such false views have given rise to polytheism . Eastern religions , especially those which posit a ...
Page 115
... God's plan for the authentic Church . Mormon Temples today have sometimes been criticized for failing to be exact replicas of Solomon's Temple , but the LDS hold that God's instructions to Solomon related specifically to that Temple ...
... God's plan for the authentic Church . Mormon Temples today have sometimes been criticized for failing to be exact replicas of Solomon's Temple , but the LDS hold that God's instructions to Solomon related specifically to that Temple ...
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... gods are the one god , and that all the forms of the goddess are the one goddess . Second , it is an open question as to whether these forms of deity are ' out there ' , or whether they are to be understood mythologically as ways of ...
... gods are the one god , and that all the forms of the goddess are the one goddess . Second , it is an open question as to whether these forms of deity are ' out there ' , or whether they are to be understood mythologically as ways of ...
Contents
The suicide cults 33 1 | 33 |
The old new religions | 77 |
The New Christian movements | 120 |
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