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With all of the different religions, sects, denominations, and belief systems out there, it can be difficult to separate the facts from mere opinion, especially if one is relying solely on online sources which may or may not be vetted and which often have an ideological or political slant to them. How can we truly understand if we cannot even be sure we are getting the facts straight? In this comprehensive resource, more than 75 evangelical scholars...
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Why are there so many religions? Do they basically teach the same thing? Bruce and Stan address these questions and more as they take a close look at some of the world's major religions and belief systems. From Islam to Jehovah's Witnesses and from New Age Spirituality to Atheism, Darwinism, and Naturalism, World Religions and Cults 101 features-
• key teachings of each religion
• quick-glance belief charts
• brief biographies of leaders
•...
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At first, the Watchtower Society seemed harmless to William J. Schnell, even valuable as a way to develop his faith in God and pass it on to others. This book is Schnell's fascinating account of his involvement with the cult, which effectively enticed him in the 1920s and continues to lure countless individuals today. Readers will learn, as Schnell did, that the Jehovah's Witness religion he had joined was anything but innocent. For thirty years he...
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We are locked in the Insanity Wars. The world is not plagued by undead zombies, but by very much alive lunatics. They don't lurch around aimlessly. They busily make fake news, they laugh at experts, they ignore anyone with qualifications, they produce alternative facts and parallel realities. Madness is their trade, and they're very good at it. Derangement is now the most profitable business in the world. If you're not demented, you're not trying...
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In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple...
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Discover the Power of Symbols, Ritual and Mystical Gestures
This Powerful Guide Explains the Involvement of the Subconscious Mind in Bringing About Inner Revelation. Freemasons, Rosicrucians, members of other brotherhoods as well as any person who is interested in metaphysics and sacred wisdom will enjoy this publication, which explores the role of the mind in bringing about powerful inner experiences and development resulting from symbols, ritual...
67) The Core
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Thousands of people have gone missing around the globe. All people find are letters saying goodbye and a white card with a black circle in the middle.
THE CORE is an organization that goes back millennia. What some call a cult used to be how the world was organized, but through time, and violence, memories have been erased. Now, however, THE CORE is on the rise, and behind it all is a man named Alex.
Every day Alex shares stories of a forgotten...
70) Cult classic
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2022.
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One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only...
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Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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509 p. ; 25 cm.
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Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
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Five elements volume 1
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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294 pages ; 22 cm.
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Finding an old map, Gabe and his friends follow clues to a secret chamber beneath San Francisco, where they perform what they think is a friendship ritual before strange events reveal a sinister cult from a parallel realm.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2021]
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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"Alice Lange's neighbors are proud to know her-a high-achieving student, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she's the perfect emblem of their sunny neighborhood. But the night before she's expected to be crowned Homecoming Queen, Alice commits a shocking act of vandalism, then disappears. She hasn't been kidnapped. She's run away with a magnetic stranger named Wesley, who has promised her freedom and enlightenment in his nearby bungalow. But...
75) The goodbye man
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Colter Shaw novels volume 2
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"In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame. Shaw's search for answers leads him to a shadowy organization that bills itself as a grief support group. But is it truly it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
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2014.
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4 videodiscs (653 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When notorious serial killer Joe Carroll (Purefoy) escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree, the FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy (Bacon), a psychologically scarred veteran who captured Carroll nine years earlier, after Carroll murdered 14 female students on a college campus where he taught literature. Knowing Carroll better than anyone and close with Carroll's ex-wife, Claire, Hardy works closely with an FBI team, which includes...
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Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c2009
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v. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
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"Comprehensive as well as compelling, with coverage on more than 2,300 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada--from Adventists to Zen Buddhists. Information on these groups is presented in two distinct sections. These sections contain essays and directory listings that describe the historical development of religious families and give factual information about each group within those families, including, when available, rubrics for...
78) Godshot: a novel
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Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
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325 pages ; 22 cm
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"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it?s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for....
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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3 DVDs (524 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Surrender to all eleven episodes of the seventh season of one of TV's most terrifying series. It is post-election 2016, and Ally Mayfair-Richards, a Michigan woman plagued by phobia, attempts to find happiness as a restaurateur alongside her chef wife and son. But Ally's family and her grip on reality are threatened by the arrival of Kai Anderson, a politically motivated cult leader who's plotting an unthinkable mass murder
80) V/H/S/94
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Shudder, RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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[1994] "After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy."--container.
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