Author: M. James Penton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802079732
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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M. James Penton offers a comprehensive overview of a remarkable religious movement, from the Witnesses' inauspicious creation by a Pennsylvania preacher in the 1870s to its position as a religious sect with millions of followers world-wide. This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography.
Author: M. James Penton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Using materials from Witness archives, the U.S. State Department, Nazi files, and other sources, M. James Penton demonstrates that while many ordinary German Witnesses were brave in their opposition to Nazism, their leaders were quite prepared to support the Hitler government. --from publisher description
Author: Diane Wilson
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592096X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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This tale of mind control, the use of fear to manipulate vulnerable people, and final escape from a suffocating cult environment is a revealing exposeof a secretive contemporary sect, as well as a true psychological thriller. Diane Wilson spent twenty-five precious years of her life, first becoming indoctrinated by the dogma of the Watchtower Society, and then struggling to free herself from its pervasive, intimidating clutches. In this probing, brutally honest assessment, Wilson describes how a childhood of psychological abuse and lack of self-confidence rendered her vulnerable to the seductive doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses. What she reveals about the goings-on within the closed Watchtower Society will shock the average person who assumes the polite, well-dressed people who pass out leaflets are much like any other conservative religious group. Wilson contends that membership in the Jehovah's Witnesses requires obedience bordering on psychological enslavement and complete suppression of individuality. Her engrossing memoir will be of great interest to former Witnesses, students of cult phenomena, and anyone who has ever had contact with Jehovah's Witnesses.
Author: Dyron Daughrity
Publisher: ACU Press
ISBN: 1684268729
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Is the United States a Christian nation? When Europeans first explored and colonized North America, they brought generations of religious conflict and a variety of Christianities with them. The Christian faith has flowered in the United States but has become extremely complex. American Christianity Today gives readers a panoramic view of America's Christians. It makes an excellent text for university courses. In this book, historian Dyron Daughrity clearly and carefully explores a rich array of topics, including: Christianity's interaction with politics; Evangelicalism (and its complexities); Small, rural churches, as well as inner-city ones; Popular American pilgrimage sites; Christian film and music; Women leaders; Megachurches; Pressing issues of today, including race, civil rights, immigration, abortion, and climate change; Roman Catholicism: America's largest denomination; Eastern Orthodoxy; Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists; Youth programs; Christian universities; The Black church tradition, and The rise of the “nones" (those claiming no religion). As a special feature, this book includes extensive photography that illustrates and supports Daughrity's well-researched chapters, helping readers to reflect on the depth and breadth of American Christianity today.
Author: Ruth A. Tucker
Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
ISBN: 9780310259374
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Ruth A. Tucker's book is a comprehensive survey of all the major alternative religions in the United States, including the new groups since the 1960s.
Author: Robert McCammon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501131427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, an ancient evil roams a devastated America, gathering the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child named Swan who possesses the gift of life.
Author: Delayed Gratification
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526645920
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description
What's the best book ever written? What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? What's the secret to living past 110? And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread? In An Answer For Everything, 200 of the world's most intriguing questions are settled once and for all through beautiful and brilliant infographics. The results will leave you shocked, informed and thoroughly entertained. Created by the team behind the award-winning Delayed Gratification magazine, these compelling, darkly funny data visualisations will change the way you think about ... everything
Author: Jackie Morse Kessler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547970439
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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In the fourth and final volume of the Riders of Apocalypse series, high school senior Xander Atwood has a secret. Death, the Pale Rider, has lost his way. What happens when the two meet will change the fate of the world.
Author: Richard G. Kyle
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162189410X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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How will the world end? Doomsday ideas in Western history have been both persistent and adaptable, peaking at various times, including in modern America. Public opinion polls indicate that a substantial number of Americans look for the return of Christ or some catastrophic event. The views expressed in these polls have been reinforced by the market process. Whether through purchasing paperbacks or watching television programs, millions of Americans have expressed an interest in end-time events. Americans have a tremendous appetite for prophecy, more than nearly any other people in the modern world. Why do Americans love doomsday? In Apocalyptic Fever, Richard Kyle attempts to answer this question, showing how dispensational premillennialism has been the driving force behind doomsday ideas. Yet while several chapters are devoted to this topic, this book covers much more. It surveys end-time views in modern America from a wide range of perspectives--dispensationalism, Catholicism, science, fringe religions, the occult, fiction, the year 2000, Islam, politics, the Mayan calendar, and more.
Author: Harry O. Maier
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451409529
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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"In the end, Apocalypse Recalled seeks to free the imprisoned John of Patmos and employ his massively influential and controversial text to awaken a sleeping, sidelined, and culturally assimilated church to new imperatives of discipleship."--BOOK JACKET.
