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Pages: 324
Authors: Catherine Wessinger
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This is a survey of cult religious violence as associated with Jonestown, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinriko, Montana Freemen, Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate and C
Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: Thomas Robbins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-28 - Publisher: Routledge

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As we approach the Millennium, apocalyptic expectations are rising in North America and throughout the world. Beyond the symbolic aura of the millennium, this e
Memories of the Branch Davidians
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Bonnie Haldeman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Baylor University Press

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The 1993 event at Mt. Carmel shocked all of America and has since spawned a plethora of books regarding the "truth" about the Branch Davidians. Memories of the
Apocalypse Observed
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: John R. Hall
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascinating and revealing
The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
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Pages: 764
Authors: Catherine Wessinger
Categories: History
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Seventh-Day Adventists, Melanesian cargo cults, David Koresh's Branch Davidians, and the Raelian UFO religion would seem to have little in common. What these gr