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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143138693ISBN-10:143138693UPC:9780143138693Book Category:Religion, Social Science, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Cults, Sociology of Religion, MurderBook Topic:Mass MurderSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCMA2G6A1M
The Penguin Book of Cults
A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven's Gate A Penguin Classic The word "cult" conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocalyptic...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143138693ISBN-10:143138693UPC:9780143138693Book Category:Religion, Social Science, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Cults, Sociology of Religion, MurderBook Topic:Mass MurderSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCMA2G6A1M
Joseph P. Laycock (editor) is an associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University; coeditor of Nova Religio, the premier journal for the study of new religious movements; the author of several books about new religious movements, possession and exorcism, and moral panic; and the editor of The Penguin Book of Exorcisms. He has written for Quartz and The New Republic and been...
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