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 73
... body to be taken over by a plurality of spirits , thus leading to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia . Amongst the distorted teachings propagated by Christianity is the idea that God became human in the form of a newly born ...
... body to be taken over by a plurality of spirits , thus leading to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia . Amongst the distorted teachings propagated by Christianity is the idea that God became human in the form of a newly born ...
Page 78
... body . Alternatively , healing could be mediated by a ' sensitive ' : this was a person of high moral integrity , skilled in concentration , who could either pass an iron magnet over the patient's body or work directly on the body with ...
... body . Alternatively , healing could be mediated by a ' sensitive ' : this was a person of high moral integrity , skilled in concentration , who could either pass an iron magnet over the patient's body or work directly on the body with ...
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... body ' depends on the degree of presence of the soul in the body . The soul is not present in the ' ordinary man's ' body ( that is , the person who has not experienced the ' opening ' in the latihan ) , and a soul - less body can only ...
... body ' depends on the degree of presence of the soul in the body . The soul is not present in the ' ordinary man's ' body ( that is , the person who has not experienced the ' opening ' in the latihan ) , and a soul - less body can only ...
Contents
The suicide cults 33 1 | 33 |
The old new religions | 77 |
The New Christian movements | 120 |
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