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The Sacred Feminine, whether viewed as an archetype, ideology or heavenly deity, has been stripped from our cultures, religions and psyches for several millennia. This book aids readers both new and familiar with Goddess to reawaken this knowledge, to experience the nurturing arms of the Mother, and perhaps, help humankind save itself.
The study of New Religious Movement (NRMs) is one of the fastest growing areas of religious studies. In this title, core chapters deal with such central issues as conversion, the brainwashing debate, millennialism, and modernisation. Another section deas with NRM subfields such as neopaganism, satanism, and UFO religions.
Our conventional view of history and human progress is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an achievable utopia that in the last century alone caused the murder of tens of millions. This book shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to improve the world has actually made it far worse.
Examines the influence of apocalyptic texts on popular cultural products, focusing on the timelessness and malleability of their themes to audiences. This title includes chapters that focuses on the influence of such texts within the areas of film, music, literature and the internet.
This revision of the author's 1989 book includes three new chapters on cult developments in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine. There are also 32 new photographs.